I’m thinking schistosoma haematobium, schistosoma mansoni, or hookworm. Those are what SCI is working against, which is one of GiveWell’s top-rated charities. They’re the only animals besides mosquitoes that I’ve been told harm humans in an Effective Altruism context.
To be fair, I hit “I don’t care” for anything that I didn’t know what it was (and I couldn’t be bothered to look it up). I expect that I was not the only one to do so.
In one sense this skews the results, but in another sense it’s still fairly actuate, since, realistically, people don’t care about species they’ve never heard of.
Let’s find out! Who deserves to die?
Human-biting mosquitoes?
[pollid:781]
Bed bugs?
[pollid:782]
Headlice?
[pollid:783]
Fleas?
[pollid:784]
Ticks?
[pollid:785]
Cockroaches?
[pollid:786]
Tapeworms?
[pollid:787]
Colorado potato beetles?
[pollid:788]
Boll Weevils?
[pollid:789]
Rats?
[pollid:790]
The proposal doesn’t kill any individual mosquito. It prevents new mosquitoes from getting born. It’s vegan friendly in that sense.
A vegan-friendly genocide of a species is an interesting concept X-D
I’m thinking schistosoma haematobium, schistosoma mansoni, or hookworm. Those are what SCI is working against, which is one of GiveWell’s top-rated charities. They’re the only animals besides mosquitoes that I’ve been told harm humans in an Effective Altruism context.
To be fair, I hit “I don’t care” for anything that I didn’t know what it was (and I couldn’t be bothered to look it up). I expect that I was not the only one to do so.
In one sense this skews the results, but in another sense it’s still fairly actuate, since, realistically, people don’t care about species they’ve never heard of.