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What is self-preservation?

What is self-preservation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The instinctive behaviour that protects oneself from harm.
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Ending a corporation's right to exist if it is destructive to human beings sounds like self-preservation to me.
Their fatalism is tempered only by the drivers' acknowledgement that the need for speed is stronger than the instinct for self-preservation.
Did I think that self-preservation, as a basic drive, would take precedence over everything else?
The ship is sinking and nobody with a sense of self-preservation wants to stick around this mess anyway.
What impels you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs?
I doubt whether the Scots, going it alone, would have developed the same ruthless instinct for self-preservation.

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