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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
I don't agree with that. Humans have more or less stopped natural selection for themselves. When you can change your environment to suit you, there is no longer a need or drive to adapt to it.
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You're right about this. Natural disasters kill on an instantaneous and random basis (the exception being geographical so there might be an argument there). But, I think that if over the next million years if humans stopped eating meat, there might be some small effects. Then again some studies say even our appendixes may not be totally inactive.
Perhaps human evolution has taken a different turn. Maybe the next step is genetic engineering (I hope so). And it might be a necessary one since flipping the bird to natural selection can have some funky genetic effects.
In any case I still think that the argument that humans aren't ethically subject to their own nature is a valid one.