I get the caution about unintended consequences but damnit of all the crazy planetary issues we're dealing with right now, I'd rank

"oops, got rid of West Nile and Malaria as well as annoying little red bumps from wandering too far from big cities"

As a win, the consequences of which we can probably figure out how to deal with when we come to it.

I know it doesn't work that way but I'd trade all the world's mosquitoes to keep the polar bears or pangolins or something any day.

"Sheen, this is the 7th week in a row you've shown CRISPR modifications to the mosquito genome to curb malaria in class"

Comments are all the same as when they made mosquitos infertile, unable to spread malaria or wingless too.

I'd like to see any scientific study that reassures at least a little that this won't have terrible ramifications for ecosystems and the food chain.

We know too little, we are shortsighted and we have a bad record of intervening with nature.

We genetically engineered mosquitoes to have gender dysmorphia - weird times.

We gave a mosquito gender dysphoria?

I had a fruit fly problem over the summer and felt guilty about the cruelty of the glue traps. But when it comes to mosquitos, roaches, and wasps, I'm Hitler. I would favor genetic alterations that expanded their capacity for suffering.

Do vegans support this because it prevents mosquitoes from consuming animal flesh, or do they oppose it because it denies the mosquitoes their nature?

This is what vegans want. They want to take your virile bloodsucking proboscus and replace it with a limp dick fruit licker.

BAN ALL VEGANS

(Small /s)

LOL FUCK EM

As long as they can still get blood from other creatures too, I'm okay with it. If not, than that could have wild implications to the food chain assuming it leads to massive population degradation.

This will probably work for 20 years, due to evolution they’ll just re-evolve that thing hard