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The ethics of natural selection for humanity

Isabella Madrid Malo
5 min readJun 11, 2019

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This is a post of reflection. Of thought and pure ideology. Of the idea about moral relativism and the attempt to encounter universal ethics. This is a post trying to persuade YOU about the idea that Homo Sapiens won against nature. A post contemplating human creation, at the expense of species and environmental extinction. Humans are the fittest, the strongest, the ones best adapted to the environment. We thrived, and the rest of the species is down- falling. But, if natural selection works like Charles Darwin established, do we not have an ethical responsibility to take care of the planet and its interior even though we are the fittest? Do we not have a moral duty as we have evolved the capacity of emotional and rational awareness?

Now, the scientific answer should be straight forward enough: the fittest survive, the once who can’t adapt do not. If humans are above all, so be it. That is nature.

Fortunately, as humankind, through history and with our fostered minds, we have created countless of faculties of knowledge. We’ve created ethics, philosophy, the arts; and this has built the argumentation against certain behaviours.

Things start getting interesting here…pay close attention reader.

When a species eliminates another one, they build space for other species without realizing this…

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Isabella Madrid Malo
Isabella Madrid Malo

Written by Isabella Madrid Malo

I write about what being a human feels like. Raw, real, naked.

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