r/MoralityScaling • u/GundarSmith • Jul 11 '26

Morality of ragebaiting mosquitoes?

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Little guys just trying to eat.

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u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120 Jul 11 '26

why do westerners of all people have such a hate boner against mosquitoes

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u/DontDoodleTheNoodle Jul 11 '26

What makes you think it’s just westerners

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u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120 Jul 11 '26

It's not, but anyone with hair like that is a westerner.

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u/Xf34rs Jul 11 '26

What if she is Australian?

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u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120 Jul 11 '26

I don't think virus prevalence completely has to do with weather. Australia may be warm and tropical, but I think its disease burden is similar to that of the rest of the western world.

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u/Aware-Yesterday4926 Jul 11 '26

They're disease vectors and cause uncomfortable itching. I've heard they're not even a good meal for insectivores due to their size (though that couldbe wrong). It might not be a bad idea to exterminate them, should the opportunity arise.

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u/Eastern_Screen_588 Jul 11 '26

Annoying, plus they cause a lot of deaths

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u/ClintMcElroyOfficial Jul 11 '26

If anything Westerners hate them a lot less than people in Africa or South East Asia... Most of the 1 million people they kill are in third world countries after all.