no, genetic engineering isn’t lindy. neither is spaceflight, the internet, or HIV meds. this pseudo-intellectual luddite bullshit is exhausting — what kind of world do you want to live in?
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hundreds of millions if not billions of organisms have gone extinct. we’re fine. but more importantly: how can you be sure destroying the HIV virus won’t cause global problems. how can you be sure eliminating small pox, cholera, or malaria won’t cause global problems?
is the class of organism you’re worried about — insect rather than bacteria? why? are there no bacteria we need to survive? or are you comfortable with our selective eradication here because it’s clearly working? talib would have hated penicillin. that isn’t a reasonable person.