Adblock is ethically equivalent to theft. This is a good thing, as far as I'm concerned (even if it wasn't deliberate).
As you once elegantly said: “It's like natural selection except our society has not selected them.” We now have the tools to remove them from the gene pool and it’s a good thing.
It's not the advertisement industry's job to fight malware or to protect you from it, it's their job to get products and services sold. That's called capitalism.
Also, if adblock is a safety measure, why then do these adguard filters and adblockers block ads/trackers on legitimate sites like Google and YouTube?
There are no "safe" places where an ad blocker can be disabled because these ads aren't strictly contextual. Any ad could run on any website.
> It's not the advertisement industry's job to fight malware or to protect you from it
In other contexts we would call this "aiding and abetting".