[ExI] Gene Drive and morality

[John Clark]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 10:48 AM William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>I just have one question about the mosquitoes:  what species will go
> extinct if all the mosquitoes disappear?
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A male mosquito will normally not mate with a female of a different species
and even if they do it will not produce viable offspring, if they did then
it wouldn't be a different species because that is the very definition of a
species. There are about 3500 species of mosquitoes but only 40 carry
malaria.

 John K Clark






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> bill
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> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 9:27 AM, <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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>> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
>> Of *John Clark
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>> *Subject:* [ExI] Gene Drive and morality
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>> >… biologists have found a way to make mosquitoes go extinct using
>> CRISPR…:
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>> https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4245
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>> >… It would be illegal to release that mosquito into the wild… self
>> styled guardians of morality are already calling for a moratorium on the
>> use of this … If that's morality then I'm proud to be immoral.
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>>  >…John K Clark
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>> If any lab anywhere finds this, there is no way to stop it using legal
>> means.  Anyone working at that lab could come to the same decision you (and
>> I) did, then secretly release them.  There would be no way to prove
>> whodunnit and even if you somehow got a confession, I doubt anything
>> serious would come of it.  They will get loose.
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>> Let’s hope for the best, with confidence in this particular case.
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>> spike
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