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Should We Eradicate Mosquitos?

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Should We Eradicate Mosquitos?
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RE: Should We Eradicate Mosquitos?
August 20, 2016 at 1:56 pm
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RE: Should We Eradicate Mosquitos?
August 20, 2016 at 2:23 pm
Absolutely not. It would be better to control the parasites and viruses they transmit.
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RE: Should We Eradicate Mosquitos?
August 20, 2016 at 2:36 pm (This post was last modified: August 20, 2016 at 2:40 pm by Fake Messiah.)
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"
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RE: Should We Eradicate Mosquitos?
August 23, 2016 at 1:13 pm (This post was last modified: August 23, 2016 at 1:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Moreover, the proposal is not that we "eliminate mosquitos" exactly...but that we eliminate particular sub s. of mosquitos, which are primary vectors of disease in humans.  One would be well within reason and evidence to suggest that, at the very least...other sub s. of mosquitos would take their place.
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RE: Should We Eradicate Mosquitos?
August 23, 2016 at 6:18 pm
Fuck no, it could send the entire food chain into chaos. Instead, we should redouble efforts to create a new and more effective malaria vaccine.
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RE: Should We Eradicate Mosquitos?
August 23, 2016 at 6:21 pm
(August 23, 2016 at 6:18 pm)Iroscato Wrote: Fuck no, it could send the entire food chain into chaos. Instead, we should redouble efforts to create a new and more effective malaria vaccine.

So?

Let's do it for the lulz.
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RE: Should We Eradicate Mosquitos?
August 23, 2016 at 6:23 pm
(August 23, 2016 at 6:21 pm)Bella Morte Wrote:
(August 23, 2016 at 6:18 pm)Iroscato Wrote: Fuck no, it could send the entire food chain into chaos. Instead, we should redouble efforts to create a new and more effective malaria vaccine.

So?

Let's do it for the lulz.

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RE: Should We Eradicate Mosquitos?
August 23, 2016 at 6:28 pm
(August 23, 2016 at 6:23 pm)Iroscato Wrote:
(August 23, 2016 at 6:21 pm)Bella Morte Wrote: So?

Let's do it for the lulz.

Every time you say this, a kitten is diagnosed with diabetes.

For the lulz.
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RE: Should We Eradicate Mosquitos?
August 23, 2016 at 6:44 pm
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RE: Should We Eradicate Mosquitos?
September 9, 2016 at 3:27 pm
What about stink bugs? We can at least agree of eradicating them, right? Since they're only like native to China and were brought to the rest of the world by freighters. IF only someone was working on their doom. I mean fall is the season when you can't open the window without bunch of them crawling in and you can't kill them since they release the stench.
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Let them live in China and leave the rest of the world like it was.

And also it dawned on me "Is there a comicbook character 'Stinkbug Man?'" and what do you know:
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But also this GMO business will be needed to be much bigger. There are all these insects going around that are from other places of the world and don't have natural enemies or in the cases with global warming where with the lack of sufficiently low temperatures certain bugs are destroying whole forests of trees.
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"
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