Why do humans/organisms struggle so hard to survive?

Question

I mean we don't even know the point of living, we just do it and we reproduce without reason behind it. Could we be the reason for this universe's demise, for all things need to go back to the way they were for the universe to be stable.

Answer 1

thats a very good question, and since I have my PHD in Bullshit I will take a shot at it for you.
We should not be struggling to live, our lives are simple and meaningless at the best, but for some reason we still do. some people call it "animal instinct" and it might be, but I believe that we are all just fighting to be better then everything else, and this is what is killing us in the end.

Answer 2

If I may borrow a story from the TV show Lost..... Locke shows Charlie a butterfly in its cocoon about to emerge. Locke says that the butterfly will have to struggle for days to get out of there. He will have to muster all of his energy to break through. Now, Locke could just use his knife to cut open the cocoon and the butterfly could be free right then, but it would have built up no strength, and it wouldn't even be able to fly. It would die within a day. So it's not survival of 'those who were born' the fittest, it's survival of 'those who struggle to become' the fittest. A lion who never learns to hunt and kill on its own will eventually die (though humans have feelings and compassion for the weak so survival of the fittest is not so prevalent any more in our species).

Answer 3

Life IS the reason. The process of life and replication is in itself a slow ascent into a more perfect existence.

No way the universe can be "stable". Simply because even the stars have a life cycle of their own- they are born, blaze in glory for aeons but eventually burn out and die. By comparison human impact on the universe is worth less than a mosquito belch in the middle of a hurricane

Answer 4

There is no 'struggle' happening. You bring the idea of struggle in by thinking that the universe and reality should be operating in a 'better' way. It is your thinking that is flawed. The organism is interacting with the universe exactly as it should. You only 'think' that there is some form of suffering there because you have been conditioned to see the process of death and disintegration as scary.

Answer 5

If you have been a product of millions years, what the beared scientist Darwin famously call as EVOLUTION, from a simple organism to such rationalizing and philosophizing creature we call as homo sapiens, then at this point your mind, which significantly smarter that Homer Simpson, would rather rationalize than accept that you are here for nothing. From our highly evolved mental faculties (i hope its reliable), it is so outrageous to proclain that "WE HAVE UNDERGONE SUCH SERIES OF PAINFUL DEVELOPMENT FOR NO REASON AT ALL"

There are only two logical possibilities, either we struggle for a reason or for no reason at all. Which of the two would you choose. Since you are capable of theorizing about things about your existence then it would be a disgrace your highly evolved mental faculties to just simply accept that you just struggle, no more no less.

Answer 6

Maybe we are the beginning of life for the Universe, maybe we are giving birth to the Universe.

Answer 7

they r following THE BIOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE 2 continue 2 exist n b a part of the continuity,diversity,interlocking support and aid and balance of INFINITY

Answer 8

natural instinct

Answer 9

the alternative is death...the end, pretty cut-and-dried don't you think?

Answer 10

humans are addicted to sex