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Humans have a strong will to survive and we're great at adapting. I don't quite see what's so strange about it. If a plane crashes into ocean and I find myself on a deserted island I'd try to survive there too. Ofcourse in a post apocalyptic world there's no hope of help arriving but that doesn't really change anything for me. I find thinking about stuff like this fascinating and I'd absolutely build myself a "doomsday bunker" if I was a millionaire. Not because I believe or hope that day might arrive when I need it but simply just because it's kind of a hobby of mine.
sure I wouldn't actively go after death, but wasting resources building and maintaining a bunker for a hypothetical post-apocalyptic and miserable life... just saying that this is a rational decision and given a rational thought I would rather be gone in this scenario.
now the hobby aspect I kind of understand.
Yeah it's wasteful for sure and many of these people are building these somewhere in New Zealand for example expecting that they can just fly a private jet there when the shit hits the fan. If I were to build one I'd want to live there too so it wouldn't just be a concrete box under ground.