This is incorrect. Mosquitoes do not kill anyone, but rather the pathogens they carry. They are just the vector.
If I have Covid-19, I pass it to you, and you die, does it mean I killed you?
If I have Covid-19, I pass it to you, and you die, does it mean I killed you?
if you did it intentionally; yes.
Relevant/related topic (though about another transmissible disease): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_transmission_of_HIV
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> if you did it intentionally; yes.
Well, unintentionally killing someone is still "killing", no?
We call unintentionally killing someone involuntary manslaughter.
We call intentionally killing someone murder.
If you intentionally broke quarantine, knowing you were sick, knowing you could get other people such, yes, you killed that person. That is not controversial.
Do you feel that way for all communicable diseases or only for Covid?
I think we can both agree this isn’t some Covid slippery slope.
Given that you are incredibly unlikely to kill someone by going out when you have Covid, this is more like going to work when you have a minor respiratory infection, which many people do, and are even sometimes tacitly encouraged to do so by their employers. As a society we haven't typically referred to those people as killers, even though there is a small risk that, for example, they have influenza, pass it on to someone who is vulnerable, and that person dies. It is clearly inconsistent to treat that situation differently to someone who goes out while they have Covid.
Not because we should be scared of the risk of dying or infecting someone else that could die of it (tho that's certainly a good argument for wearing a mask when suspecting you have the flu) but because that person could infect another few, and they another few and oh woops flu season with 3-5 billion in economic damage in the US alone from a single shitty disease let alone others.
This hardly seems relevant to mosquitos.