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>>11723141
>If you don't want to die, you 'should' probably fufill your needs. If your preference contradicts your basic survival utility, I would say you're maladaptive but it doesn't matter because you've removed yourself from the mutual survival game (that game being the reason moral formuals exist in the first place).
But should we want to survive? What is the utility of survival? What needs does it fulfill? Should we play this game? It's really not as straightforward a question as you seem to think, even if you assume all needs are based around survival (not true) and the world is physical (not proven) etc etc.
You seem to assume biological physicalism is the only game in town, and thus xyz follows, but you're begging the question