sapiens, species, plural (for now)

I have an idea. A very silly and yet very dangerous idea. An idea that humans are already in the midst of a speciation event.

No, I don't mean X-Men superpower mutants (or ninja turtles), although the consequences are equally momentous. I mean just plainly that Mother Nature is experimenting with new varieties, the same as She always does, and that at least one variety may be converging upon a stable, (re)productive pattern.

My idea is dangerous for four main reasons, partly explored already in the X-Men universe of comic book stories and The Tomorrow People British television series:

1. Idiots use simple superficial differences to justify all kinds of horrid mistreatment. Things like skin color, hair color, eyelid fold. I don't mean these cosmetic changes. I mean something much more significant. I mean changes that affect behavior, mate selection, skeleton shape, and even diet. If differences of hue beget slavery, imagine what differences of species might engender.
2. A particular variety of idiot (religious right-wing ultra-conservatives, hello) considers the idealized human form to be chosen by God Himself and not subject to change. It would make no sense for a perfect Creator to upgrade to a new revision of anything, especially of His prized achievement. Change in that form implies Imperfect formation by the Creator, and that suggestion amounts to blasphemy of the worst kind. This variety of idiot has the unfortunate tendency to respond to blasphemies with violent aggression, "destroying the evidence" that causes such lines of inquiry.
3. Legal systems around the globe are not well suited to trans-species concepts. It was simple enough (excepting a few wars and suffrage movements here and there, of course... minor things) to expand the concept of "Man" to include non-men (women) and non-whites and non-landowners. Expanding it to include other species, however, requires a radical examination of what the term "human rights" even means.
4. Modern social standards in this age of progress expect New to mean Better, when it should really only mean "better suited, at present, for current prevailing conditions... unless they change again". People not in the New category feel left out of any new cultural phenomenon, devalued and left behind like discontinued merchandise.  The reverse is also true, with people on the New side acquiring inappropriate airs of superiority. Rebellion often ensues, disastrous for all parties.

http://home.earthlink.net/~mellowtigger/evolution.html

What do you think?