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I think a more relevant question is: do mosquitoes feel bad about killing humans? Billions of us, most of them children.
by baxtr 2y ago
I think a more relevant question is: do mosquitoes feel bad about killing humans?
Billions of us, most of them children.
- colordrops 2y agoMosquitos are only one type of countless types of insects, most of which are harmless or even beneficial to humans. In any case if you are going to have such a war-like attitude, it's the humans that deserve to be destroyed by the animals, not the other way around. We are the ones fucking up the planet. And we kill almost 100 billion animals a year for food, and who knows how many others from other human activities.
- b112 2y agoHumans are animals, very successful ones. The only reason other animals are kept in check, is because they eat their food source until there's too little left to sustain them. Goats will eat everything bare, locusts destroy everything, beetles ruin forests, beavers dam rivers changing ecosystems so much, it can be seen from space. Every single lifeform on this planet expands, grows, multiplies without restraint. Animals don't csre one wit about conservation, or balance, or restraint. They never consider such things, ever, beyond filling their belly. You act as if other animals are somehow noble, yet it is only humans that take deep, strong thought and care about the environment.
- colordrops 2y agoNo, you misunderstand me. I do not act as if other animals are noble, I act as if humans are not special in comparison to other animals.
- b112 2y agoWell we agree then, but farm animals have run off cliffs, in a hysteria, to escape deer flies. I'm sure they'd want to exterminate such pests, all of them given a chance.
- colordrops 2y agoIronic to use animals horded together near cliffs for human consumption and as an example of insect cruelty towards mammals, and furthermore imply this as some kind of common event.
- HPsquared 2y agoHumans are just another animal though, a lot of animals change the local environment.
- anigbrowl 2y agoI don't feel any compunction about killing mosquitoes, but I prefer one good hit with a heavy object and its over. I'd consider it unethical to torture one by dismembering it while it's alive, for example, and I'm not a fan of using poisons.
- yesfitz 2y agoHow is that more relevant?
- Yawrehto 2y agoIt's a bit unfair to blame mosquitoes (who are also only a small portion of insects). As far as I'm aware, the diseases hitch a ride in mosquitoes, not harming them typically. The mosquitoes aren't trying to pass it on; it gets them no benefit (in fact it would arguably be detrimental; fewer humans to feed on because they died means less food).