Is there a second direction?another purpose?
if the direction of life and origins is survival than what are we to say of suicide an action that controdicts this direction?
and if suicide is just a way out what if the way out controdicts the direction of nature?
if you take all this into account then there must be another direction of human nature,but what?
humans are children of nature and yet their actions defy nature
every day-Unknown.
Answer:
I do not believe suicide is natural. In nature, the point of a creatures life is survival.
Depression and suicidal thoughts are mental diseases. Nature weeds out the weak and the diseased, preferably before those individuals breed and pass their genetic material on to new generations who may inherit whatever "weaknesses" predisposed the individuals to failure to thrive in life.
hey
psychology just got hung up on making itself look like a science!
maybe there's something different in people and animals? maybe it's not all just instincts and hormones? maybe meaning is important?
i'm not saying the meaning of life isn't open to good rational and scientific enquiry...but you might ask yourself just what you mean by 'scientific' in the first place.never met a psychologist who knew!(take a peek at Kuhn if you actually want some answers there)
read rowan's 'the reality game' - not much about humanity, life, psychology and the search for meaning that isn't there.
also - a guy called viktor frankl base a whole system of psycholoogy in answering exactly your question. it's called logotherapy and the drive your talking about he called the drive towards meaning...and evidenced its importance in seeing that those who did not have that, WHATEVER else they had, did not survive the concentration camps he was in.
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