This is something I've been wondering about for weeks. I understand why we as humans want to survive, that is to enjoy the pleasures of life, but why do we continue the species, why do we eat, why does our nature inscribe in us survive at any cost?
Really, please, think hard about this one. I'd like to know what your opinion is.
2006-10-17 23:05:32 · 6 answers · asked by Link 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
The real meaning to life (without thinking psychological = only our mammal body) is to survive. There is no other reason to life than survival. If you think about human beings as animal: survival at any cost, including of course sex to grant at least our genes to survive and make the complete specie stronger if you combine with the right partner. There is a pyramid (I've forgotten whose) which indicts that the strongest wantings is to please the wanting to drink, eat and sleep. Then to have a place to live and only at the top of the pyramid it says things like wish to act with other people...
I guess humans aren't that far away from animals.
2006-10-17 23:21:19 · answer #1 · answered by Dame D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If an organism wasn't hellbent on survival, it probably wouldn't survive. Life's hard work, and there's a lot of danger out there- predators, disease, etc. If you didn't care if you lived or died, what would stop you from doing the things likely to get you killed? Or keep you doing the things you need to to survive? If it's shorter to go past the lion's den, the only thing keeping you from going that way is an extreme urge not to get eaten by the lion. And any species that wasn't intent on propagation of the species would die out within a generation. Imagine if humans didn't like sex, or liked sex but everyone hated kids. In the first case, no one would have it, so no babies. In the second case, we have contraception now, so only one in a hundred people would have babies and the species would die off more slowly. These people probably wouldn't be the best parents, anyway, so I imagine there'd be lots of kids dying of neglect, further harming the species. So any species that either doesn't care about living or doesn't care about procreation has long since died off.
2016-05-21 23:03:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is just one instinct for human and natute.
Propagate for the survival of species
2006-10-17 23:19:11 · answer #3 · answered by nomad 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is because life is such a precious thing - and beautiful - despite the fact that it can be hard and depressing at times.
2006-10-17 23:52:37 · answer #4 · answered by Kellybelle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its just simple instinct built into our brain. Simple
2006-10-17 23:14:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The things that please someone who has high evolutionary fitness ultimately leads them to procreate, whether that was their goal or not.
2006-10-17 23:30:00 · answer #6 · answered by Wingaddict 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋