Emile comments on Fighting Mosquitos - Less Wrong

17 Post author: ChristianKl 16 October 2014 11:53AM

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Comment author: Emile 16 October 2014 08:56:44PM 4 points [-]

Let's find out! Who deserves to die?

Human-biting mosquitoes?

Bed bugs?

Headlice?

Fleas?

Ticks?

Cockroaches?

Tapeworms?

Colorado potato beetles?

Boll Weevils?

Rats?

Submitting...

Comment author: ChristianKl 17 October 2014 03:33:27PM 7 points [-]

Let's find out! Who deserves to die?

The proposal doesn't kill any individual mosquito. It prevents new mosquitoes from getting born. It's vegan friendly in that sense.

Comment author: Lumifer 17 October 2014 03:45:26PM 9 points [-]

A vegan-friendly genocide of a species is an interesting concept X-D

Comment author: Capla 18 October 2014 04:25:19PM 2 points [-]

To be fair, I hit "I don't care" for anything that I didn't know what it was (and I couldn't be bothered to look it up). I expect that I was not the only one to do so.

In one sense this skews the results, but in another sense it's still fairly actuate, since, realistically, people don't care about species they've never heard of.

Comment author: DanielLC 17 October 2014 03:03:15AM 2 points [-]

I'm thinking schistosoma haematobium, schistosoma mansoni, or hookworm. Those are what SCI is working against, which is one of GiveWell's top-rated charities. They're the only animals besides mosquitoes that I've been told harm humans in an Effective Altruism context.