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by _zywo 1516 days ago
Who's "people"? The state? A democratic vote? The individual?

The problem with mosquito-borne diseases is that they're non-consensual. People have a right to live without mosquito-borne disease.

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Human beings who have lived in a state of nature. When there are medical cures to mosquito-borne diseases available, the patient can choose to take it or not take it. This foisting of treatments on people without their consent creates very dangerous precedents.
The state of nature is a construct, there is no base "state of nature." These mosquitoes are only here because humans brought them here.
There is a big difference between how ecosystems change through human and animal migration and technocratic "solutions" that usher in a whole new level of medical invasiveness.
Oh? What difference would that be? If I intend to add or remove a species from somewhere is that somehow worse than if I accidentally add or remove a species from somewhere? In what way?
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