Separating ethics from philosophy to form an independent discipline is impractical, as it's impossible to develop rational and productive moral norms outside of the sections of philosophy closely associated with issues of worldview.
A human still knowingly commits heinous crimes. If education is adequate, they would never permit such actions, for upbringing forms a conscious sense of one's own worth.
For those who wish to ponder the aimlessness of evolution and the probability of the extinction of all living things, modern popular science provides the opportunity to study the events of mass extinctions in the history of life on Earth and the deadly natural and cosmic phenomena.
