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“Why do you kill a mosquito?”, I ask my second self.
“I have to, he said, It can cause dengue or malaria right?”, Said my second self in calm.
“Ok, but studies clearly show that very few mosquito species carry those, not all.” I replied
“But they bite and drink blood bro,” he was confused now.
“Ok, but studies also show that only female mosquitoes bite, not the male ones, so not all of them.”
“What’s your point??,” he was pissed.
I guess the point I was trying to make to my other self was that, because someone successfully created a perception in my mind that all mosquitoes could be the enemy since there’s no need to verify if they even are harmful, I’m more than happy to kill the entire species without a second thought.
“BUT NO ONE CAN VERIFY WHICH IS HARMFUL RIGHT??”, the religious sentiments of blindly standing against mosquitoes were now hurt.
Ages after ages, some anti-mosquito man has risen among the mases and claimed that because a few individual of a particular looking and sounding breed of mosquitoes have been historically harmful, it makes total sense to eliminate or alienate that entire breed. What else would work since it is humanly impossible to verify each one’s history, gender, intensions and beliefs? JUST REMOVE THEM ALL.
Remove them all, or until then you are not safe. Come up with as many anti-mosquito campaigns, electrocution racquets, chemical sprays, and be indifferent to their death and absence, just keep spreading the word that you have to remove every last one of them.
And as part the “majority” victims, we must follow.
I don’t care about mosquitoes, kill as many as you want, what I feared was the lack of second thought. And the mindset of following someone’s opinion like a cultural practice.
How impossible would it be to think a second time about what your leaders have said?
(P.S. Just put up mosquito nets, nothing else was ever needed.)
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