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.

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

LOL FUCK EM

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.”

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

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

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.

As a Brazilian, I won't feel sorry for these fuckers.

We gave a mosquito gender dysphoria?

Ok but mosquitoes historically are the #1 killers of humans, by an order of magnitude. This could be argued as a form of evolution. We simply engineered them out as a threat. GG get gud scrub, see you in 3 million years when you have your own AI generated bioengineering.

DIE, DIE, DIE

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.

Right, but consider:

Fuck them bugs

Genetically engineer them to grow to the size of Cessna. Ride them to battle

One day we will be Gods

This is amazing. Far better than killing them off.

I mean, have you ever seen a pug? They're fighting for air their entire life. Or chihuahua's? Awful personality and bred out of usefulness.

I am a hippy nature person who tries to be merciful and kind to plants or insects. The exceptions are mosquitoes and ticks. Those fuckers want to take my blood and dont settle for one serving if they get the chance. Were in a biological armrace and so far we've been loosing. Let's see how they like being fucked with.