Personal Self-Destructive Behaviors

Personal and collective evolution should remove patterns that undermine survival, adaptation, and flourishing. Blueprint began as a way to address the personal cooperation problem created by behavior that conflicts with survival and longevity goals. Eating excessive junk food, poor sleep, and avoiding exercise are presented as personal behaviors that increase the risk of death. The article says these self-destructive behaviors accelerate aging, decay, and decline. Self-destructive behaviors can become so normalized that they are no longer clearly recognized as destructive. Self-destructive behavior is identified as something humanity should shed. Culture can celebrate harmful behavior patterns and create norms around them. Moving into a zeroth-principle future requires humanity to let go of traits that no longer serve it. Common self-destructive behaviors include overeating, unhealthy eating, smoking, drinking excessively, and other harmful habits.