I can't believe i'm saying this, but... I think mosquitos don't deserve this. There's basically no life form that deserves our cruelty more than mosquitoes, but this pushes a boundary i didn't know was there.

LOL FUCK EM

We genetically engineered mosquitoes to have gender dysmorphia - weird times.

This is as sad as watching the Terminator try to kill people with a broken gun. Alexa, play "in the arms of the angels"

On the one hand this is creepy as hell

On the other fuck mosquitoes

I'd like to see any scientific study that reassures at least a little that this won't have terrible ramifications for ecosystems and the food chain.

We know too little, we are shortsighted and we have a bad record of intervening with nature.

One day we will be Gods

We have suffered for millions of years under mosquitos are they are likely the biggest killer of humans in history. Maybe us evolving big brains and developing genetic engineering is an evolutionary necessity?

Or as Harbinger said: “We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.”

I get the feeling of discomfort but it's basically the same feeling we get when someone breaks a pencil

There is no evidence that a mosquito is capable of feeling the kind of despair or horror that a human would feel in a similar situation. It's unlikely that mosquitos can form emotions at all.

At the same time, a huge portion of human-animal interactions involve the human controlling the animal in ways that they animal can't even comprehend. A dog has no idea you're doing operant conditioning to change their behavior. Pigs have no idea they're being fed just so they and their children can be eaten.

The only way to avoid this kind of thing is to turn off your big human brain and go back to ape tier. We might need to go farther down the tier list than that though https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War

We gave a mosquito gender dysphoria?

I get the caution about unintended consequences but damnit of all the crazy planetary issues we're dealing with right now, I'd rank

"oops, got rid of West Nile and Malaria as well as annoying little red bumps from wandering too far from big cities"

As a win, the consequences of which we can probably figure out how to deal with when we come to it.

I know it doesn't work that way but I'd trade all the world's mosquitoes to keep the polar bears or pangolins or something any day.

Who knew this whole time I was team mossie

DIE, DIE, DIE