TheDarkEnigma
St. JackieArklövcel
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The bottom line for every living organism is to survive long enough to have as many descendants in its lifetime. Our ancestors fought hard to maintain their survival, fighting for resources and fighting for self-preservation. Our bodies are designed and evolved to incentivize our survival against any new threat of deaththat comes against it. Our fight-or-flight response is designed to maintain our physical security when threaten with violence by another person or predator, and to fight back with aggression.
In our modern First World society, we no longer have to exert physical effort in order to obtain food, water, clothing, shelter, tools and physical security. We no longer have to live under the threat of predation, disease, starvation, dehydration, or changing climates.
Being that we are able to have all our physical necessities met, we should be more happier right?
Then why many people in our modern society want to kill themselves? Why is our society promoting suicidal behavior in the people who live in it despite this behavior not being natural to humans?
If a person was put in a life-or-death situation, naturally that person would do everything he can to maintain his own survival even if it deprives the survival of others and even if the act goes against that person's morals. If a person was starving and at the brink of death he will do everything he can to get food, even if it means having to kill your pet dog or eating another human's corpse. A group of starving people would fight and kill each other for food.
But someone who is not living in such perilous circumstances, what then is driving that person to want to kill himself? Doesn't that goes against your biological imperatives? Why eat food, drink water, have sex, earn money and fight back if you want to die anyways?
In our modern First World society, we no longer have to exert physical effort in order to obtain food, water, clothing, shelter, tools and physical security. We no longer have to live under the threat of predation, disease, starvation, dehydration, or changing climates.
Being that we are able to have all our physical necessities met, we should be more happier right?
Then why many people in our modern society want to kill themselves? Why is our society promoting suicidal behavior in the people who live in it despite this behavior not being natural to humans?
If a person was put in a life-or-death situation, naturally that person would do everything he can to maintain his own survival even if it deprives the survival of others and even if the act goes against that person's morals. If a person was starving and at the brink of death he will do everything he can to get food, even if it means having to kill your pet dog or eating another human's corpse. A group of starving people would fight and kill each other for food.
But someone who is not living in such perilous circumstances, what then is driving that person to want to kill himself? Doesn't that goes against your biological imperatives? Why eat food, drink water, have sex, earn money and fight back if you want to die anyways?