Does Smallpox have a right to live? What has a right to live?

Does this right to live include things that may kill us? Smallpox for example. Do the animals or insects that carry disease have a right to live? What about Malaria?

Who decides? and see the cause of weather change and the domino effect of?

We need to smarten up because there isn%26#039;t a place for the rich and famous to hang out where the atmosphere is nice, we are in this together. Economy can NEVER take precedence over environment, try living without it.

The answer is humans decide who has the right to live by our interaction environmentally. We are just to dense to understand we will die as well.

Very good question.

Nothing has a right to live. Sometimes it benefits us to eradicate things we don%26#039;t like, other times it doesn%26#039;t. I don%26#039;t think that seals complain about their rights when an orca comes and kills them for fun.

You are talking about two very different things, when you talk about smallpox, and disease carring insects or animals.

First I%26#039;ll adress smallpox. No, I do not think it has a right to %26quot;live%26quot;. The countries that hold the last of the smallpox need to destroy every bit of it.

Unfortunatly since the collapse of the Soviet Union nobody really knows who controls the smallpox.

Smallpox is the ONLY disease to ever be sucessfully wiped out (althought there are %26quot;cousin%26quot; types of smallpox still alive in the wild).

Once it was wiped out, and the two big countries (U.S.A. %26amp; U.S.S.R.) held onto some of it, it became a weapon of mass destruction. It%26#039;s no longer a disease...it%26#039;s a weapon.

I am one of the very last people to recieve a smallpox vaccine. There are now two generations of people who have no vaccine, and no immunity from contact with the disease.

Since they insist on holding onto it, and keeping alive in labs, they need to continue to offer the smallpox vaccine to people. Yet you can no longer get the vaccine, because it does not exsit in the human population. That%26#039;s true...just in labs waiting to be unleashed.

Insects that carry disease. Yes, they have a right to live. Harsh as they are, they are a way for nature to control populations (both human and other animals). Predators cannot do everything to control populations.

Disease spreading insects do a more efficient, and thorough job of suddenly reducing populations to more stable levels.

It%26#039;s not that I like them, nor the suffering they bring. I just think they are part of nature. Think of it this way...almost everyone I know likes Tundra Swans. Gorgeous birds, who doesn%26#039;t like the white majesty of a swan? Tundra swans lay their eggs on the tundra of Alaska. They hatch their cygnets out there. The cygnets grow up fast, eating mosquitoes that live on the tundra by the millions. If you sprayed to kill the mosquitoes, you%26#039;d also doom the baby swans (and other birds) to starve to death.

Of course that doesn%26#039;t mean I%26#039;m not going to try and prevent mosquitoes from munching on my horses, and possibly giving them West Nile virus. I%26#039;ll kill the little bugger too, every chance I get. However the few I manage to swat with my hands is not even a drop in the bucket.

An animal that is carring a disease often need to be killed. Just last month, I read about a town in Alaska that was attacked by rabid wolves. They hade to destroy a large number of the towns dogs to prevent the spread, and of course this also ment guarding children outside on their way to school. So of course that spread needs to be reasonably controlled, with the extermination of that pack of wolves. Besides death by rabies is a sad, painful, drawn out death.

However this does NOT mean entire bat collonies should be wiped out, because they are potential carriers of rabies.
Carriers of disease of course are different than animals that have contracted the diease. Bats of lived with rabies so long they are sometimes (but not always) carriers of rabies. This is because they are building up a natural immunity to rabies. So they can spread it to other animals (which does happen at times), but not actually get sick themselves.

However the bennifit bats do, with the millions of tons of insects they eat every evening far outwieghs the possible chance they will infect another animal with rabies.

It%26#039;s all a tricky balancing act, to try and carve out a reasonable nitch in this world. I don%26#039;t want my horses to die of West Nile virus, so I encourage insect eating birds to my property, and vaccinate my horses, as well at trying to provide no habitat for mosquitoes.

Every animal %26amp; plant carves out it%26#039;s nitch in nature, and tries to out-compete it%26#039;s neighbors.

~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Wow, for someone who asks such marvelously open ended questions you get some incredibly dumb responses.

Why stop progress?

My answer: Jesus.

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  do you, you fool?