Self-destruction

First Contact became humanity's salvation as it was at the brink of self-destruction.

I see self-destruction now on a grand scale. That is, the unwillingness to pay for the things society needs. That's the most basic kind of self-destruction. That we're not prepared to pay for schools, we're not prepared to pay for highways. That is self-destruction. What are we doing to ourselves? It is nuts.

Sami was involved in Layla's self-destruction.

Sex and drugs are a path to self-destruction.

It's possible to remotely command a satellite's self-destruction.

Algeria isn't on the brink of self-destruction.

It's like inciting self-destruction.

Is it like inciting self-destruction?