Survival is a terminal goal that most people have.
That explains why there are no such things as armies or wars, why no-one has ever risked their life for another, why no-one has ever chosen dying well above living badly, and why no-one has ever considered praiseworthy the non-existent people who have done these things. No-one would dream of engaging in dangerous sports, nor has the saying “live fast, die young” ever meant anything but a condemnation.
I was going to answer something like ‘when I don’t drive as fast as I could I sacrifice an amount of time to increase my survival probability’, then I realized that’s not what you mean, but you might want to replace “any” with “an arbitrarily large” to avoid confusion in other readers.
That explains why there are no such things as armies or wars, why no-one has ever risked their life for another, why no-one has ever chosen dying well above living badly, and why no-one has ever considered praiseworthy the non-existent people who have done these things. No-one would dream of engaging in dangerous sports, nor has the saying “live fast, die young” ever meant anything but a condemnation.
To repeat myself, terminal goals do not have to be important, it’s a different quality.
For me, for example, the feeling of sun on my skin is a terminal value. It’s not a very important terminal value :-)
That only shows that survival isn’t the only terminal goal, not necessarily that it’s not a terminal goal at all.
Is there anyone anywhere who would sacrifice any amount of anything, including other lives, to save their own life?
I was going to answer something like ‘when I don’t drive as fast as I could I sacrifice an amount of time to increase my survival probability’, then I realized that’s not what you mean, but you might want to replace “any” with “an arbitrarily large” to avoid confusion in other readers.