self-preservation

As a result, the student completely disengaged from the class discussion as a means of self-preservation.

All items on this list can be summed up to: We always act out of self-preservation.

There's no real reason to object other than a craven appeal to self-preservation taken axiomatically.

The problem is, of course, that government is lousy at execution and overly political and self-preservation all and so, for example, cuts the most visible programs first.

It seems like the bots have a self-preservation strategy when they start out trapped.

Any semblance of intellectual reasoning he had to support his anti-Semitic view gave way to self-preservation and a need to not hate himself.

They even forget how to act in the interest of self-preservation.

That presumes that one couldn't see the funding of cryonics organizations as itself a social good, aside from whatever small chance of self-preservation it comes with.

But pardon me for my cynicism, we're not at the point yet were self-preservation supersedes the desire for just a fractionally larger income.

I was primarily interested in if the answers would be centered around self-preservation, rebuilding of society, rebuilding of technology, or preservation of the arts and philosophy.

I agree that self-preservation has probably been a factor in the more than dozen close-calls the world has seen, but I would hardly call it impossible.

Add to this that there isn't an endless stream of people both willing and able to do the job in the first place, and also that training takes a fair while, and it's clear that self-preservation is a requirement for emergency workers.

This is not snitching but a combination of self-preservation (getting law enforcement off your scent) and universal justice (because there must be crimes "we" can "all" agree aren't conducive to a healthy life, a progressive universe and the continuation of the species as advanced.