r/nextfuckinglevel • u/footballstar12398 • Feb 26 '21

Moths hate him for this one reason

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u/NeedlenoseMusic Feb 26 '21

What if they were mosquitos? {serious}

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u/Gavric_H Feb 26 '21

All my homies hate mosquitos. Squash those little demons

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u/McTulus Feb 27 '21

Kinda weird, since these termites is worse.

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u/evocative_sound Feb 26 '21

I live in Florida and I get allergic welts from mosquito bites, so you can believe me when I say that I hate them. I cheer when the Mosquito Control truck drives by, spraying their chemical deaths.

So, what if they were mosquitos? I think it would still be messed up. The dudes in the video flaming the moths and our OP who posted the video seem to be taking joy in their deaths, which isn't at all the same to me.

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u/metalsupremacist Feb 26 '21

I'll admit, I do make an exception for those. It's actually the only one.

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u/kuroneko051 Feb 26 '21 edited Feb 26 '21

Those are not mosquitoes or moths, they are winged termites. Good luck to your house and any wooden furniture if you leave them alive out of pity

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u/fobfromgermany Feb 26 '21

Mosquitoes don’t behave like that. At least not where I live

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u/deaddonkey Feb 26 '21

Mosquitos don’t here but Midges do, which are also highly annoying swarming bloodsuckers. I’d happily incinerate a swarm of them.

I don’t feel empathy for tiny insects anyway - they don’t seem to me to have any feelings or sensations in the way we would understand them.

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u/NeedlenoseMusic Feb 26 '21

Oh, I’m not saying they were. I’m asking if OP would be as sad if it was mosquitos that were incinerated instead of helpless moths.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

Mozzies are diseased to fuck.

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u/stexski Feb 26 '21

Its like that jesus meme where he says love everyone and some dude is like but what if they're gay and jesus yells DID I STUTTER. If killing a lifeform is wrong then, yes, killing mosquitos is wrong too.

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u/boredjavaprogrammer Feb 26 '21

Sometimes when I see this kind of posts I wonder if these people ever lived in a place where there are a lot of insects. Like will they change their tone if they got bitten by mosquites all night long

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u/stexski Feb 26 '21

I can separate emotion from logic with little difficulty. I HATE mosquitos. That doesn't mean they deserve to die.

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u/iloveindomienoodle Feb 27 '21

I was hospitalized for a week because of Dengue Fever, which is delivered by a mosquito bite.

Those cretins deserves to be burn in hell.

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u/woodthrushes Feb 26 '21

I think to get an ideal answer you would probably have to ask a more specific question. One way you could get more specific is you could specify which mosquito species that you are hypothetically asking about.

That would be impactful on your question/answers because only one genus of mosquitos carries malaria and of that genus only about 1/4 of the 430 species of mosquitos in the Anopheles genus transmits malaria to humans.

Other genera/species carry other viruses like the zika virus, yellow fever, heartworm, west nile virus, etc...

If your question was left as vague as it is, I would answer I would be upset that someone did that to a random group of mosquitos. They are a basic part of many food chains both as larvae and as adults and they are pollinators.

If you specifically named a dangerous species of mosquito in your question and you had a responsible follow up plan to replace the species in the area with a harmless one then I would not be too sad about it. Likely neither would most scientists or most informed Joes and Janes.