The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations. . . . A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere else!--and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts.
We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level. Self-interest, love of family, duty to country, responsibility toward the human race . . . .
The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.
Tag: morality human-nature survival moral survival-instinct
When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
Yann MartelTag: empathy survival-instinct
Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.
Criss JamiTag: human-nature human logic positive survival negative honest instinct superiority judging survival-instinct logical-thinking judgmental
Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.
AberjhaniTag: power inspiration faith grace human-nature determination spirituality perseverance healing recovery broken-heart resurrection restoration survival-instinct world-suicide-prevention-day songs-from-the-black-skylark zped-music-player rejuvenation spiritual-empowerment
It's hard to think when someone's trying to kill you. We human beings aren't wired to be rational and creative when we know our lives are in danger of a swift and violent end. The body has definite ideas of which survival strategies it prefers to embrace, and those are generally limited to "rip threat to pieces" or "run like hell." No thinking need be involved, as far as our instincts are concerned.
Our instincts were a long time in the making, though, and the threats that can come after us now have outpaced them. You can't outrun a bullet, and you don't go hand-to-hand with a gunman unless you're certain you are about to die anyway. Speed and mindless aggression weren't going to keep me alive.
Tag: survival-instinct dresden-files
I’m a survivor. And like the moon, I have a feeling it would take a truly spectacular event to keep me from taking my place in the scheme of things, waxing, waning, and eclipsing notwithstanding.
Janet RebhanTag: inspirational inspirational-quotes moon survival inspirational-life survival-of-the-fittest eclipse inspirational-attitude survival-instinct survival-of-the-human-soul eclipse-of-the-moon eclipse-quote
Show me a man who has no interest in his own good, and I'll show you a man who is not in touch with his own humanity."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
Tag: humanity self-interest survival-instinct r-alan-woods
Amazing what humans could do to one another when their survival instinct kicked in.
Jason M. HoughTag: survival-instinct
His red eyes swung in my direction. Without a second glance, he released the dead man's body. It hit the ground with a loud thump, but I couldn't bring myself to look at him. He was already dead, but even if he wasn't, there wasn't a thing in this world I could do for him. My death was waiting in those red eyes as well, if I didn't figure out how to save myself in the next few seconds.
Rose WyntersTag: survival zombies survival-instinct
The suit came up, and Holston thought that maybe people went along with it because they couldn't believe it was happening. None of it was real enough to rebel against. The animal part of his mind wasn't made for this, to be calmly ushered to a death it was perfectly aware of.
Hugh HoweyTag: survival-instinct
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