No, natural selection doesn't have a mind, and DOESN'T CARE ABOUT ANYTHING.
We care. Natural selection made us to care. But natural selection itself doesn't give a damn. Thou Shalt Not Anthropomorphize Natural Selection.
Now you're just being obtuse. Talk about what natural selection "cares about" is obviously nonliteral and has an obvious meaning. To say that natural selection "cares about" A and does not "care about" B simply means that A, and not B, is a factor in natural selection.
We should redefine "harm" to mean something different than people think when they talk about "harm", because natural selection intended "harm" to mean something else,
That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that the things that we think of as harms (and I listed a few as examples) actually do interfere with reproduction (with obvious but completely understandable exceptions, such as when they happen to people who have already lost their ability to reproduce), whether or not we are aware of this fact or not. It is not a definition. It is a factual claim about the actual things we consider to be harms.
and when our human intuitions come in conflict with natural selection's "intent" we must obediently bow to our creator's intent.
No, I am not saying that at all. I am saying that we can be wrong about whether something that looks like a harm, is a harm. It's certainly possible. Oh, come on, you have got to admit that it is possible to be wrong about whether someone is harmed.
But please not that I also asserted my confidence that drug addicts really are being harmed. Why am I confident? Because while I accept the theoretical possibility of being wrong, I don't think I actually am wrong. I trust my perception on this matter. When I look at the photographs of meth heads, I have great confidence that they are harmed by their use of the drug. We can in principle be wrong about whether someone is harmed, but in all likelihood, we are not wrong.
And for this reason, I fully expect that if we were to do a multi-generational study of meth-heads, we would find that they don't do all that well in the reproduction department in comparison to a control group.
That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that the things that we think of as harms (and I listed a few as examples) actually do interfere with reproduction (with obvious but completely understandable exceptions, such as when they happen to people who have already lost their ability to reproduce),
Most of the things we think of as harms also interfere one's heartbeat, with one's brainwaves, with one's breathing, with one's digestive systems, with one's sleep patterns, etc, since we're our biologies and every biological function is interconnected wit...
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