It's self preservation because you identify part of your self with your family member. You're effectively preserving who you are. This is why you dehumanize the opponent in war. It makes it much easyer for people to destroy them. They can no longer identify themselves with the target of the malice.
It's all selfish behavior.. self preservation.
The only reason that self preserving entities exist versus non self preserving entities is because self preserving entities preserve themselves over time and are therefore are the ones that survive to exist.
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Vi veri veniversum vivus vici. (By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe)
The self is not a fixed entity but a dynamic process of relationships
You & I, no distinction. - Tat Tvam Asi
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