Self-preservation

Does the term self-preservation mean anything to you?

Fadil was forced to choose between love and self-preservation.

Sami was forced to choose between love and self-preservation.

When cowardice is conducive to self-preservation, it is called intelligence.

Yanni's instinct of self-preservation trumped his loyalty to Skura and that explained why he threw her under the bus and revealed her involvement in the crime.

I'm here to tell you want to do. And if self-preservation is an instinct you possess, you better fuckin' do it and do it quick.

Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.