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I'm the only one not comfortable with the idea of wiping whole species just because we don't like them? I mean, I'm far fromthe Gaia thing, but what rights do we have to do that? And next? Rats, cockroaches? Hey, this specie of birds doesn't do anything useful and eat our fruits, why not killing them all?

Mosquitoes aren't even "responsible" for those diseases... Maybe we should invest in proactive body defenses against virus instead of just killing some random things.

Even if we just kill those mosquitoes species you know what? Nature evolves. Other mosquitoes and viruses will come. Do we kill them too?

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> Instead of just killing random things

There's nothing random about it, they're the transmitters.

Should we also be against antibiotics? It's just random bacteria.

> Nature evolves. Other mosquitoes and viruses will come

Guess we should have left polio to it's own ends. And all vaccines are disrupting the natural order of things. Best not worry about any of it because there will always be another disease

>just because we don't like them?

It's bit stronger than "we don't like them"

>Maybe we should invest in proactive body defenses against virus instead of just killing some random things.

Invest more than the billions that billions that Bill Gates has already invested?

And do you think Bill Gates would approve killing whole species ?

I honestly don't known but he seems to be a very clever guy and eradicating species doesn't sound to be a clever solution and really not a good long term solution.

What if you break a whole ecosystem ? What if those mosquitoes contain invaluable genes for future medicine? What if they offer a unique window on the evolution of insects?

But hey, who care? Kill them all..

The Gates foundation funds efforts to eradicate polio and malaria.

He's written about it:

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Eradicating-Malaria-in-a-G...

>And do you think Bill Gates would approve killing whole species ?

Yes, and in fact he's done the research, written about it and ultimately it may have been his investments that led to this conclusion.

Or we can just let hundreds of thousands continue to die because they might magically contain the cure to cancer in the future.

Humans do not like seeing their family and friends die. The motivational force to prevent that from happening is very strong. Ultimately, that's why we're killing the mosquitos.

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