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If you wear a mosquito repellent, mosquitoes will avoid you and bite someone else. Is it your fault if someone is bitten by your mosquito?
If someone shoots at you and you duck the bullet will hit the guy behind you. It is permissible to duck?
Joseph: No, actually. Mai Chazis
Its environmentally irresponsible. You’re messing up the ecosystem.
Same if you fight off a polar bear.
Female mosquitoes bite us because our blood contains an amino acid that helps them lay eggs to create a new generation of irritating, bloodsucking nuisances.
If you don’t contribute your blood, that’s one less chance they get.
Swat the mosquito, please.
To the opening poster: Is it socially irresponsible to let your kids be bitten by mosquitoes and increase the risk of contracting West Nile virus or other diseases? Maybe you should learn the obvious before you learn Torah.
Sam: I have to disagree with you on that one. I don’t think mai chazis would apply there, when one’s sole action is removing himself from danger.
Is it socially responsible to secure our belongings, thieves will move on and look for an easier target. Is it your fault if somebody else gets robbed?
I think this question could be asked about anything we do that makes safer,healthier,wealthier etc.
Why don’t the animal rights activists care about insects? Is this proof of misplaced priorities?
Mosquito repellant should be banned. Donating blood saves one life but witholding use of insect spray enables the birth of hundreds of living creatures.
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