[notJim]

> We have a moral obligation to evolve to suit the environment. That is what it means to be a successful animal.

I'm not sure how any of this related to morality. What is your moral framework here?

However, if we accept it, the unique success of humanity clearly does not stem from blindly accepting whatever nature throws our way. Humanity's success, and defining characteristic is that we're able to bend nature to our will, and when that isn't possible, consciously bend ourselves.

The vaccines are another example, and the mRNA vaccines are incredible example of this. We engineered a way to use our own body as a factory.

Humanity's progress doesn't depend on giving up on technology, it depends on increasing our abilities with it. Evolution is too slow and too random, humanity can do better altering our own genome. If we survive, humanity will eventually be able to manipulate entire solar systems or even galaxies. Possibly the whole universe. That's our destiny, not dying of smallpox on our home planet.