(November 27, 2022 at 4:21 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Rodents are filthy, disease-riddled vermin. Anything that kills mice and rats is a boon to humanity.What was the last time some disease spreaded from rodents to humans? I can think of three times when it spreaded from bats to humans, all in recent history: EBOLA, SARS and COVID-19. As far as I know, no recent epidemic or pandemic came from rodents. Bats are far more dangerous.
BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:As far as killing sentient beings goes, humans do that on the regular.What do you mean? You mean all the animals killed on the roads? Well, we are, unlike cats, not doing it intentionally and we are trying to minimize that. Cats are not trying to minimize the amount of sentient animals they kill, to the contrary.
People regularly contract diseases from rodents, including (but not limited to) hantavirus, tularemia, leptospirosis, monkeypox, and Lassa fever. They are vectors for diseases like plague, typhus and West Nile virus. FYI, bats are not rodents. Simply because there hasn’t been a recent pandemic of these doesn’t alter the fact that tens of thousands of people die every year due to rodents. How many people are killed by cats? How many would die from rodent-borne diseases if it weren’t for cats?
No, not roadkill. We deliberately kill billions of birds and mammals every year for food and and for industrial raw materials, and have caused the extinction of thousands of species through the expansion of our own.
And you wanna pick on CATS??
Boru
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