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No, one of them has caused many more human deaths than the other.



So what? Still the wrong metric to compare both organisms


Why? An organism that causes millions of human deaths needs to be wiped out. This is an evolutionary imperative. If a species (humans) get out-competed to death at large scale it will go extinct.


> An organism that causes millions of human deaths needs to be wiped out.

Not necessarily; that would be suicidal. And take in mind that you are perfectly describing humans (and dogs)


And snakes.

But mosquitoes blow the rest of these out of the water with staggering numbers of human deaths on their hands.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deadliest_animals_to...




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