>>12017515>yeah we should, who is gonna say that they want mosquitoes to stay on earthI believe mosquitoes are conscious and sentient and experience qualia. If any of us were a mosquito, we would have a distinct first-person subjective experience.
Female mosquitoes don't intend to harm anyone when they draw blood from an animal; they do it because that's just how they happen to eat. They didn't choose to be born into a body that eats by sucking blood. They just sometimes unknowingly and unintentionally pass small pathogens when they eat.
Therefore, isolated from everything else, it's unethical to just massacre all mosquitoes. However, when balancing the impact to humans and mosquitoes, human life is of course more valuable, and approximately 5 - 50% of all humans who've ever lived have died from mosquito-transmitted pathogens. So if the only option is human deaths vs. mosquito deaths, then, yes, the mosquitoes unfortunately have to die. But this is only because it's a lesser of two evils; it's still an evil.
The best option would be some remote way of immunizing and/or sterilizing female mosquitoes, or somehow making humans invulnerable to mosquito bites. I don't know if this'll be feasible during this century, though.
