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Presumably all the bleeding hearts who've objected have never had malaria nor have they ever seen anyone in the throwes of suffering from it. Mosquitoes are the number one killer worldwide.

Can't these idiots realize that whilst there's risks that they're outweighed by the benefits.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mosquitoes-kill-mo...

One of the tragedies of modern society is that the whingers and whiners usually haven't suffered from the effects of the things they're complaining about. Their political action then denies benefits to others not so ideologically disposed.

We've seen how much damage they've caused over COVID-19 objecting to masks, vaccines and so on. Many thousands have died as a result who otherwise would not have had these objectors had more sense.




>Can't these idiots realize that whilst there's risks that they're outweighed by the benefits.

Please list the extent of the risks and the impact so that we can weigh it up against the benefits. Make sure you remember every risk, no skipsies.


Go and read my long extensive epistles on COVID-19 and the opioid epidemic and then you tell me what I've missed out.

Please list them all carefully (I'll then add then to the list.)

Incidentally, search HN and you'll find the list of relevant items available is almost inexhaustible.


>and then you tell me what I've missed out.

You've missed my point. Asking you to list out all the risks is rhetorical because you can't list your unknown unknowns.

I wasn't challenging you to actually list them but to show you that you can't claim the ability to weigh the risks against the benefits like you claimed since there might be risks you're not accounting for.

So you might counter with "well then by that logic we shouldn't do anything for fear of the unknown unknowns"

But to that I would say the difference here is you're playing with an system of immeasurable feedback loops too complex for anyone to model.

What's being introduced here is another feedback loop with no backsies, and what if we find out later we've made a catastrophic mistake?




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