Simply put groups are a strategy in which multiple organisms (often with shared genes) cooperate to compete with other groups and organisms. The most successful groups have rules for how group members should interact with each other and when a member breaks the rules the group condemns the rule breaker because he is undermining group cohesion

If your goal is survival, then to keep your head down and bide your time until the threat has passed is the way to survive, unless you think that you would be sought out and exterminated for doing so.

It is fight OR flight

That's why adultury is condemned within society

Societies that condemn it do better as a result

@Summī Imperator, 呪い殿 no survival is Telos

Survival at any cost

And sticking your head down is only applicable when danger is present

The Telos is survival.

Yes

I think is what you mean.

You're right

Telos in and of itself means nothing.

It's just an end.

A goal

The destination or aim.

Survival is more than threat scenarios

No, if you believe you are in danger of not surviving

There is a threat.

Either you need to mitigate the threat, or hide from it.

Passing on your genes has to do with survival but there is no threat.

No, of you don't pass on your genes, that is the threat.

That your genetic line will end.

Then you are just describing every operation of life in general

To keep us alive long enough to reproduce, to help our offspring survive long enough so they can reproduce, etc.

All such would be a?

The threat to your genetic line surviving.

To continue to live or exist, especially in spite of danger or hardship.

Everything we do is to protect ourselves from threat.

That is to survive.

@campodin false.

Yeah.

We don't eat to survive

Now threat has become meaningless

We eat because we like it.

People do things that are detrimental to the survival of their genes, of humanity, and of life

Lol food is for nutrition

And often that action is in contrary to survival.

What I claim is not that all organism act this way, but that this is how all organisms SHOULD act

Yeah and those are the degenerate behaviors

So when you go to the store, you buy anything.