[chrismeller]

I’ll be honest, that seems remarkably ignorant and short-sighted.

Do we need Tigers at this point? Of course not. Anything they hunted has now been hunted way more by man. That doesn’t mean we don’t recognize value in having them.

Just because you don’t see the value in mosquitoes doesn’t mean there is none. Sure, maybe they killed off people by transmitting disease in the past. They still do. They also kill off other animals, and if the mosquitos disappeared we could have a huge overgrowth if wombats next and no way to get rid of them.

I thought we had agreed that killing off any species was a bad thing. Maybe we don’t know how or why, but it’s going to bite us in the ass eventually. In the case of mosquitos quite literally.