Ethical dilemma: Should we get rid of mosquitoes? - Talya Hackett
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Date: 2023-01-31
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Noraver
A world without mosquitoes would be heaven on Earth, let's be real. Those summer nights without having to worry about them and constantly swatting around would be so much more relaxing.
However, they are a big source of food for bats, fish, reptiles/amphibians, etc.
Ideally, there would be some way to have them stop targeting humans all together rather than wiping them out, but I doubt there's any way to modify their genes properly for something that specific.
As long as we could find a way to fill in the gap that comes from their loss to keep other animals fed, then I say wipe'm out, lol
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A world without mosquitoes would be heaven on Earth, let's be real. Those summer nights without having to worry about them and constantly swatting around would be so much more relaxing.
However, they are a big source of food for bats, fish, reptiles/amphibians, etc.
Ideally, there would be some way to have them stop targeting humans all together rather than wiping them out, but I doubt there's any way to modify their genes properly for something that specific.
As long as we could find a way to fill in the gap that comes from their loss to keep other animals fed, then I say wipe'm out, lol
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Living
I don t think we should get rid of mosquitoes even if they are so annoying and dangerous, I feel like they help pollinate a lot of things. And that makes sense because everything is present here for a reason. But if there s some other living being to balance out the equation, then absolutely YES, I would want to get rid of them.
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I don t think we should get rid of mosquitoes even if they are so annoying and dangerous, I feel like they help pollinate a lot of things. And that makes sense because everything is present here for a reason. But if there s some other living being to balance out the equation, then absolutely YES, I would want to get rid of them.
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Julia
I don t think we should get rid of mosquitoes even if they are so annoying and dangerous, I feel like they help pollinate a lot of things. And that makes sense because everything is present here for a reason. But if there s some other living being to balance out the equation, then absolutely YES, I would want to get rid of them.
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I don t think we should get rid of mosquitoes even if they are so annoying and dangerous, I feel like they help pollinate a lot of things. And that makes sense because everything is present here for a reason. But if there s some other living being to balance out the equation, then absolutely YES, I would want to get rid of them.
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Vee
So many beautiful places in the world that I'd love to visit but I avoid going there because they have a big mosquito problem. I'd vote for eradicating the little buggers, and spiders, and cockroaches, and bedbugs, and ticks. What else you got? I'd take the eco system food chain risk. Lucky I'm not in charge isn't it.
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So many beautiful places in the world that I'd love to visit but I avoid going there because they have a big mosquito problem. I'd vote for eradicating the little buggers, and spiders, and cockroaches, and bedbugs, and ticks. What else you got? I'd take the eco system food chain risk. Lucky I'm not in charge isn't it.
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jacob
I am going to guess who these people who wants the process to stop, probably rich people in the west, the biodiversity people who never had anyone suffer fatal diseases, who sat at their comfortable home and decides to protect animals instead of many poor people.
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I am going to guess who these people who wants the process to stop, probably rich people in the west, the biodiversity people who never had anyone suffer fatal diseases, who sat at their comfortable home and decides to protect animals instead of many poor people.
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Lord
Mosquitoes is the most useless life form in existence. They literally drink blood and spread diseases. A pesticide so advanced that would work only against them and would be harmless for every other living organism would bring any chemist profit out of nowhere.
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Mosquitoes is the most useless life form in existence. They literally drink blood and spread diseases. A pesticide so advanced that would work only against them and would be harmless for every other living organism would bring any chemist profit out of nowhere.
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education
Couldn't you theorically engineer a virus with the genetic driver, that infect the population of humans, and unknowingly, make us sterile?
It would condenm human population before we have the chance of reverting it.
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Couldn't you theorically engineer a virus with the genetic driver, that infect the population of humans, and unknowingly, make us sterile?
It would condenm human population before we have the chance of reverting it.
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Earthling
I understand the concerns on the food web, but if we can eradicate mosquitoes with only impacting 2 or 3 species, we should take that risk in my opinion but obviously experts can reach a better risk-assessed position.
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I understand the concerns on the food web, but if we can eradicate mosquitoes with only impacting 2 or 3 species, we should take that risk in my opinion but obviously experts can reach a better risk-assessed position.
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Aaron
I have this movie idea since childhood, new reports and the all the world watching a rocket launch that payloads the last container of mosquitoes in the world towards the sun and the world claps
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I have this movie idea since childhood, new reports and the all the world watching a rocket launch that payloads the last container of mosquitoes in the world towards the sun and the world claps
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Jon
I hate being the devil's lawyer, but I don't think we should get rid of mosquitos. The are pollinators, and a food source of other animals. Also, human's need some form of population control.
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I hate being the devil's lawyer, but I don't think we should get rid of mosquitos. The are pollinators, and a food source of other animals. Also, human's need some form of population control.
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Stefan
No, we can reduce for now but not kill of totally them off since we've got other things. hmm depends if we take into account all the money thats not being spent on helping these issues
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No, we can reduce for now but not kill of totally them off since we've got other things. hmm depends if we take into account all the money thats not being spent on helping these issues
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Hidden
what if we made a bio engeneer mosquito that is repulsed by a certain pheromon unperciveble by humans, and than ship a spray with that pheromon arownd the world at a chrap price
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what if we made a bio engeneer mosquito that is repulsed by a certain pheromon unperciveble by humans, and than ship a spray with that pheromon arownd the world at a chrap price
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zawsrdtygbhjimokpl
yes, all of them. Nature did not perish after 99. 8% or so of species went extinct, so a few more should be fine.
you didn't really answer the title's question?
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yes, all of them. Nature did not perish after 99. 8% or so of species went extinct, so a few more should be fine.
you didn't really answer the title's question?
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MANUEL
we can't manipulate the environment. what about snakes, cockroaches, and bats, these last are playing an important role in creating viruses due to human being manipulated.
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we can't manipulate the environment. what about snakes, cockroaches, and bats, these last are playing an important role in creating viruses due to human being manipulated.
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