I understand survival and the survival instinct well enough, but I wanted to know why it was built into all of creation, from the tiniest bacteria to the most complexed organisms on the planet (id est, us). Please think hard about this one. Why will any living organism do anything and everything it can in order to survive?
2006-10-19 00:16:38 · 8 answers · asked by Link 4 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I really have no idea. Truely mindboggling.
2006-10-19 00:19:20 · answer #1 · answered by Game Guy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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.
2016-05-22 01:38:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This shows the value of life doesn't it? I think human beings sometimes underestimate the value of human life. We suicide over the most minute things like failing our tests, losing a partner etc etc....I think nature is hellbent on survival because everything has the right to survive. Given a chance in this world we should appreciate and do all we can to make sure our life has served a purpose.
2006-10-19 00:37:27 · answer #3 · answered by christian_87_15 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because without the natural most basic instinct to survive nothing would survive. From the most complicated organism to the most simplist form of life each living thing is given the internal instinct to survive. Survival is the basis to evolution.
Organisms evolve to survive. Thank our ancestors for giving us survival traits because without them we would not be asking and answering questions on yahoo answers.
2006-10-19 01:08:21 · answer #4 · answered by okchico 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe because there's no other way..what would you suggest ? sit back and wait ?as far as any other species are concerned, it's easier to understand it. they don't have logic, as man does, and their actions are their insticts, there is no other way. now, as far as man is concerned, i guess your question goes to why is it so d-i-f-f-i-c-u-l-t to survive ? well, i've asked myself the same question many times, i guess if i want an honest answer, i have to look up many factors, such as money, way of living, what everyone wants from his/her life, choices they make..many things..
2006-10-19 00:42:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its our nature. Organisms without that feature become extinct.
2006-10-19 00:34:14 · answer #6 · answered by DrB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because if it wasn't, it wouldn't be here now, and you wouldn't be here to ask the question.
2006-10-19 04:00:37 · answer #7 · answered by just me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i dont see ants do nythin wen they r being killed
2006-10-19 00:23:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anubhav~~!! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋