It is also another commonly acknowledged fact that one cannot deliberately extinguish an entire species for the great destruction it will do to the food chain.

Therefore, applying A on B, the best solution is to educate the mosquitoes, houseflies, cockroaches and rats so that they will nevermore be irritants to us and we can have a peaceful coexistence as they transfer the knowledge from generation to generation. After all, if we can train chimpanzees, dogs and even rats, we can train them to be civilized little buggers as well and reach a mutual compromise so that we can raise all our standards of living. Talk about a win-win solution where we do not damage the environment irrevocably and lead to our own demise plus we make every living creature a happier creature!

After all, the next step for standards of living is to include all possible animals into our count as well. If we were truly a humanitarian society which stands up for all rights, it makes sense that animals should be included into the happiness index. Although I admit including animals such as chickens, cows and pigs would greatly pull it down so perhaps we'll exclude them to make our statistics look reasonable and not in the negatives. After all, while altruisim is the ideal, it is undeniable that we're still selfish capitalist creatures at heart who believe in objectivism and not all of us can survive on tofu for our only protein sources.

How shall we go about doing this? We would first have a fundamental assumption that animals have their own code of communication, and that given sufficient education, they would spread the seeds of what they've learnt to fellow comrades and future generations (WOW THAT RHYMED!). Admittedly, educating cockroaches and houseflies would be a rather tough task seeing that the latter buggers have been around for some billions of years and have probably annoyed the hell out of the dinosaurs as well. For species which have been around for so long we have alarmingly little knowledge on their intellectual capabilities (for to survive for so long one needs rather a lot of intelligence but we don't seem to have included them in our SMARTEST ANIMALS listings, I think we're rather ANIMALGROUPIST because we only think mammals are smart!). Of course I understand this lack of research on this area; who in their right minds would want to research on these ugly creatures??

But as we're so fond of saying, LONG RUN BENEFITS OVER SHORT RUN COSTS. If we manage to have a breakthrough in this area, it won't be long before we're on our way to achieving world peace and harmony and an exponential decline in diseases! For I theorize that the real source of disorders are these irritating insects. For example, Hitler probably woke up one day with a cockroach on his nose. "MY GOD, YOU LOOK LIKE A JEW!" he said, though till this day nobody knows why yet. And so he began killing them the way he would want to kill cockroaches, though he still died with a cockroach popped in his moustache waving its disgusting fillers around and flying off when someone tried to swat it. Damn those wings of theirs.

So we gather the top few of these three species into a laboratory where we educate them with our trusty reward-penalty system. For example, if a housefly lands on a banana with a neon orange sign, it will be given more bananas. However, if the housefly lands on a non-neon-orange sign banana, it will be immediately zapped. Some optimism is required that these alien animals are open to such methods of learning and will gain the knowledge that HEY, NON-NEON-ORANGE BANANAS ARE BAD!

After that, we release them back into specific housing environments and these teachings will be conducted on a larger scale. Houseflies which intrude upon non-neon-orange bananas will get fried immediately. Sooner or later this knowledge will pass around and hopefully to the whole world of houseflies such that we now have an arrangment: ONLY EAT NEON ORANGE BANANAS! And they can have a designated area for meals and lodgings and we can earn more income with housefly hotels etc.

I've always loved the idea of designated areas. Especially the one I suggested last time of dumping all smokers on jurong island; I still think it is such a brilliant idea. If only it were feasible, if only!