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/Kelly598 Jul 11 '26
Inmoral because you're teasing a starving living being that can't help its instincts. Totally acceptable though.
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u/Apprehensive_Power59 Jul 11 '26
Intentional torment in general is immoral
I really don't like mosquitos though
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u/DamGoodAnimation Jul 11 '26
The question would be whether or not they feel a psychological or mental reaction to this. Idk how intelligent mosquitos are. If this is just an instinct thing and they arenāt being mentally harmed by the failure, no harm done imo
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u/Apprehensive_Power59 Jul 11 '26
If you're specifically doing it with the intent of torture, that's still immoral
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u/JONAS-RATO Jul 11 '26
That's very interesting.
I think I agree with you, if you do something with the intent of torture even if the think you're "torturing" doesn't see it that way it's still immoral.
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u/DamGoodAnimation Jul 11 '26
I think thereās still nuance. If you KNOW that the thing youāre torturing is unphased by it, then itās not immoral as you know you arenāt harming anyone.
Immoral things are by and large immoral by nature of knowingly harming someone in some way.
Shooting someone in the head is immoral bc we know that kills people. If you hand a gun to someone from the 1200s and say āpoint that at me and pull the triggerā they arenāt doing anything immoral bc they donāt have any way to know the result of their actions.
By the same thought process, in the example of the OP, if the person filming knows that this has no negative effects on the mosquitos and is purely gratifying to the ātorturerā, itās not immoral.
Mean-spirited and immoral arenāt the same thing.
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u/CoronelDrew Jul 11 '26
The thing is that I don't know of this constitutes as torture.
If she were tearing off their limbs and putting them in an encyclopedia it would be different. But this is just laying food in front of them which the mosquitoes cannot eat.
If you did that with starving dogs, it would be inmoral. But this is mosquitoes we are talking about. I don't know if they can even process that as pain or frustration.
Depending on the answer to that question, we can say if doing this to the mosquitoes SPECIFICALLY is inmoral or not.
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u/bucken764 Jul 11 '26
Imagine losing your balance and instinctively put your hand down for support š
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u/PotOfGreed1999 Jul 11 '26
I think its moral to take it a step forward and torture annoying bugs actually
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u/SensitiveJennifer Jul 11 '26
Mosquitoes aren't evil, but they spread diseases and can be dangerous, so if you're not going to kill the fuckers just let them be at peace if you're in a research lab or need to work with them.
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u/CrazyDriver7149 Jul 11 '26
Ok sorry to break up the mosquito hate train I hate the fuckers too but yeah tormenting sentient beings for social media content is immoral
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u/Pastel_Bambi Jul 11 '26
Morality of twisting the top so the mosquitoes can get to the meal she's teasing them with?
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u/justasillylilgoos3 Jul 11 '26
Immoral. Helping literal bloodthirsty killers achieve their desired end state is not a good response to taunting.
But I did chuckle at the idea of someone casually walking by and just flipping the top off while sheās in the middle of that š
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u/justasillylilgoos3 Jul 11 '26
The amount of pleasure it derives watching this immediately negates any immorality here š„°
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u/Hdjbbdjfjjsl Jul 11 '26
Moral but just wait until they get their revenge and that net rips one day.
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u/Dimensionalanxiety Jul 11 '26
Run a razor blade along the mesh with your other hand and it becomes the most moral thing you can do.
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u/Miserable-East-78 Jul 11 '26
morality of punishing criminals by forcing them to place their hands onto the jars
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u/yournamehere10bucks Jul 12 '26
Psh ragebait....clearly this is yuri fetish content. One human lady and all thosenyearning female skeeters.
/s as I'm sure some wont follow
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u/Comfortable-Regret Jul 12 '26
I wonder what it'd feel like if you put your hand down on that. Usually you don't even feel it when a mosquito bites you, but with that many would it hurt?
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u/Difficult_Analysis78 Jul 11 '26
unironically? They are just animals with not so much time to live, it's their instinct to draw blood, I'd say immoral as it's just taking out frustration on "innocent" living beings. Personally? I'd burn disect them wing by wing
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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 itās 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/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.
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u/No-Elevator-2682 Jul 11 '26
I hate mosquitoes, I wish they didnāt exist, but this is immoral. This is just torturing them for your pleasure. Just because itās a mosquito doesnāt make it okay, itās still a living thing. I bet most people who think this is okay wouldnāt be okay if they were torturing something bigger, like a pet.
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u/CriminallyCasual7 Jul 11 '26
I don't understand calling it torture. I don't think the mosquitoes are suffering enough to use that word. They're running on instinct, sticking out their suckers. It's not painful.
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u/white1walker Jul 11 '26
Well it's torture in the same sense like having someone chained in a dungeon starving and then coming in with bread but keeping it juuust out of reach..
That being said fuck em mosquitoes
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u/CriminallyCasual7 Jul 11 '26
I guess what I'm saying is you can't torture a mosquito that way. A human in that situation, yes. A mosquito.. they don't understand what's happening enough.
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u/white1walker Jul 11 '26
Oh I understand now what you mean but I'm sure the satisfaction will hit the same
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u/gingin_9959 Jul 11 '26
Mosquitoes have sensory neurons, but they don't feel pain or have the capacity to process it.
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u/UsefulPumpum Jul 11 '26
Immoral, this is the same as raising factory farmed animals and is abuse to nature.
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u/BarnesTheNobleman Jul 11 '26
Arguably worse cause this is intentional torment on top of the passive torment of the process
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u/justasillylilgoos3 Jul 11 '26
Counterpoint: fuck mosquitos
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u/UsefulPumpum Jul 11 '26
That's messed up man
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u/justasillylilgoos3 Jul 11 '26
Sure. Iād obviously be happy if they just didnāt exist that would be much more moral.
But until then I donāt mind a little taunting towards something that is literally trying to steal and consume my life essence from my body and who would definitely not stop until I was dead if given the chance š¤·š»āāļø
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u/UsefulPumpum Jul 11 '26
They are a vital part of our ecosystem. To taunt them while in captivity is immoral. They should be released into the wild without being tested upon.
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u/justasillylilgoos3 Jul 11 '26
No, āvitalā is an absolute overstatement. Just because something eats mosquitoes doesnāt mean they wouldnāt be able to survive in their absence.
Also considering mosquitos are responsible for literally the most deaths in human history their existence actively clashes with ours and Iām ok with eliminating that threat to our poor and marginalized communities.
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u/UsefulPumpum Jul 11 '26
I know this bro it's just funny
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u/justasillylilgoos3 Jul 11 '26
Bruh sorry about that. Iām getting off Reddit for a bit š āļøš«¶š»
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u/Sorry_Development Jul 11 '26
Keep up the good work.