I literally stay alive for the enjoyment that life brings and coincidentally I believe I’m wired to have kids and teach them my philosophy. I don’t know is that self-fish? Is that me, trying to produce a copy of my thoughts. (it’s actually quite crazy to think just like cells multiply, humans multiply, and even in socities we can measure some people go for this label, some go for that label, some represent themselves this way or that way, and then we teach uniqueness when really there is a certain type of people, and this can be measured through similarities of beliefs)
“When faced with death do other considerations (moral and philosophic) give way to self-preservation?”
As mentioned above, I think sacrificing myself for my kid would actually be preserving myself in a way. Of course I recognize my son is his own person, but data wise, through genes and philosophy I live on, sort of.