Survival Is Not Selfish

A big question is being debated whether survival is selfish or not. Some people
believe survival is selfish and some think it is not. People view both of them differently
some think saving yourself when you had the option to help and possibly save them.
Others believe that it is just survival instinct and you can't be faulted for putting yourself
before others in dire situations. It's hard to argue though because in life or death
situations it's hard to fault somebody for be human and trying to survive. This can be
argued both ways .Survival is selfish and this is why.

Consider if you are in a dire situation you would probably not be thinking about
what the other people is the situation are doing are doing you are more than likely going
to seek self preservation. Stated by the author in paragraph one and two of is survival
selfish “bruce ismay the chairman one of the few male survivors was savaged for saving
himself” that's not fair for him to of been savaged by the media because he saved
himself he said he saved countless others and at this point it was just human instinct.
The author from the leap showed how she saved herself instead of her husband she
grabs the pole inside of his hand then she was ridiculed by her decision. Considering
the ​dimensions​ of the situation she did pretty good with what she had. She was just
trying to survive. She did not save her husband but if she would've tried the both may
have parishes instead of just one. This supports survival may not be selfish just
instinctual.

Some of the time survival is based off of luck and ​external ​assistance so how can
you say because you we lucky you are selfish. In the article from deep survival by
laurence gonzales in the first 6 paragraphs “she’d have to get herself out” in this
situation there was just luck and motivation nothing selfish just smart she got lucky by
surviving the fall then she ​utilized ​what she had. she didn't pick herself over others.
Another example is in the story on the titanic in is survival selfish “he claimed there were
no children or women in the area around him he had helped all of the ones around” how
can you blame him was he just supposed to sit there and die. He got lucky because of a
spare seat in the lifeboat how is that selfish. You can see some of the time its just luck
so you can't really fault someone for luck it's not up to them.

Other people think you should try to save other people. This is not a strong
argument because the ​statistics​ of surviving would have been very low if she would
have tried to save her husband. Back to the article is survival selfish is the first few
paragraphs as stated by the author “he saved all the women and children around him”
he could have went out of his way to find more people to save. This shows how people
can be not selfish in a bad situation but it is possible that all it would accomplish is you
dying but could mabe make you a hero. At the end of the day is it worth possibly saving
someone else for a higher chance of self survival. In the leap she could of grabbed his
hand and both would of perished but at least she would of died a honorable death. As
you can see it does not make much sense i can understand helping if it does no effect
you fate but saving someone for somebody else makes little sense.

As you can see survival is no selfish it is based off of instinct and other factors
such as luck. You can’t blame someone for helping their self interests. There is lots of
reasons why it is not selfish but little reasons why it is selfish. It's just very appealing to
just save yourself instead of going out on a limb. This shows survival is not selfish and
its just surviving as in the name. sometimes the only way to sustain you life is ​sacrifice
others to save yourself.