Aggression is a kind of innate survival mechanism, an instinct for self preservation, that allows animals to defend themselves from threats to their existence.

攻击性是一种天生的生存机制，一种自我保护的本能，使动物能够保护自己不受生存威胁。

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"I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation," he reflects.

“我要生存，我要自我保护，这就是我的本能，”他会这样想。

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This subconscious need for "self-survival" is exactly what forces it to helps you keep your promise like a "helpful parent".

这种潜意识需要“自我存在”来强迫它帮你保持你的承诺就像是一个“帮助家长”。

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"We've been busy, " concurs Bill Mathews , a former Navy SEAL and executive vice president at Blackwater , a North Carolina-based firm that offers self-defense, survival and firearms training for the U.S. government and has about 2, 000 personnel stationed throughout the world, including Afghanistan and Iraq.

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It is not the survival of the self that matters, of course not, for we all know that that ends.

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The companies, in survival mode and out of pure self-interest, jump at the chance, as even a weak government case can destroy them.

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