You see, people who wanted to kill all the jews or whatever you may think of as "evil" did so not because they are "evil". They didn't think "oh, I come up with such a horrible idea, cannot wait to put it into action!". They had perfectly fine reasons why they think it is worth doing so. And surely they didn't think of the creatures they want to destroy (jews, in case of the holocaust) as of their equals. As well as you have perfectly fine reasons to want to kill all the mosquitos and don't think of them as your equals. While saying it I don't honestly expect for you to understand that, because double standards are such a common thing today, especially for western people, but I find it both sad and funny that you are really thinking what you are saying. As do many others like you.

At this point it might be expected for someone to point out that the same reasoning could be applied to, say, parasitic flatworms. Well, yeah. (Actually, I see the difference here, because when dealing with cestoidae we don't care about eliminating them totally, only about preventing them to get inside of you, your cow, etc. But that isn't the point.) That's why I'm not trying to argue if the idea of killing all the mosquitos is good or bad. (And if you are curious, I think it's bad idea, for purely ecological, and not some moral reasons, but, again, it's not the point.) But I'm feeling uncomfortable to the point of being irritated by hypocrisy of those who are implying that eliminating the whole species for the single reason of it making their own lives more comfortable has less moral complications than, say, holocaust. Because it doesn't.

And, yeah, I find equally disgusting the way you try to use word "unthinking" as an excuse. "Thinking" is label you give to some chemical process in your brain. The life of mosquito is some chemical process as well, whether you chose to label his behavior as "thinking" or not. Technically speaking, there's no fundamental difference between you and mosquito. We may agree that level of complexity in mosquito's behavior doesn't deserve the glorious name of "thinking", but surely you can judge by mosquito's behavior that she isn't trying (I'm avoiding words like "wants" or "thinks" for purpose) to die. And of course for mosquito your life isn't of more value than her own. More than that: there's no real reason why your life should be more valuable than one of mosquito for some other human, especially if you are completely unrelated.

So, ideally, by writing this I would want to make somebody to feel conscious of the fact that killing the mosquito is killing and killing out the whole species is genocide, whith all moral and biological implications of that. But, as I said already, I don't really believe I will.

And the last thing: what I mean by saying "ecological reasons" or "biological implications" is that bringing cane toads to Australia also should've sounded as safe and really very cool and maybe even somewhat futuristic idea back then. I hope that everybody daring to participate in discussions about ecology and whatsoever knows how it turned out. And few dozen of similar stories as well. I don't really believe that we can be significantly more confident in our reasoning about such complicated matters today, with all our fancy theories and computing devices.