We Are Survival

I know this may be embarrassing to say, but I really enjoy watching Discovery Channel, and Animal Planet. They are two of my favorite channels just because they have the best videos of nature. I really enjoy watching other animals live. Watching a lion attack another animal is something that I find absolutely incredible.

In the third chapter, Dawkins says something that I don't completely agree with. “We are survival machines, but ‘we’ does not mean just people. It embraces all animals, plants, bacteria, and viruses.” (21) I think that humans are survival machines but in a completely different form which is much more complex. Animals, plants, bacteria, and viruses all fight to survive. That is ultimately their only goal in life. They are born, try to not get eaten, mature and grow, then create a family and hunt other animals. It's a cycle that has been going on for many many years. Humans on the other hand are a little more complex to understand because we don't ONLY live to survive. For many of us, simply surviving and having food is the least of our problems. We don't only live life to hunt and eat. This may make us seem like we're not survival machines, but we really are. We are in the sense that we try to make countries, governments, economies, and ways of life survive. Since simply surviving is something that the majority of the world can do, humans took it to another level. Since we all live in different countries with different ways of life, we try to expand that and imperialize other countries with our ways of being. I think that this is the major difference between the rest of living organisms and humans.