(September 11, 2016 at 9:31 am)Mermaid Wrote: We need to look outside of ourselves a bit more at the bigger picture. They fill an ecological niche for good reason that may not be completely understood.
Oh, come on: mosquitoes are giving us brain eating diseases, but we must not be selfish and look at the bigger picture, because if we eradicate them we may all die (although scientists think nothing major will happen and we can always keep few mosquitoes in the lab just to make sure) and if we keep them we could face serious repercussions and even dying, but at least we're looking at the bigger picture.
Also, if we keep mosquitoes and Zika turns out to be very deadly and kills us all / turns us into zombies not all people will die, like the ones with Sickle-cells, because they don't get bitten. They will live on and fight "World War Z" and make new civilization form themselves. I just hope they make us a monument that shows that we were not selfish and look at the bigger picture.
But also it's a question if we can even eradicate them. GMO treatment is supposedly very efficient, apparently killing them over 90% but not 100% and since it's GMO it has it's stigma among majority of people that are not educated enough about it so it may actually never come to life - so to speak in US and Europe.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
