Adaptation or Murder?

Yesterday, in Ms. Chambers' room, there was a poster on the wall about the scientific process of adaptation.  

According to the poster, the definition for adaptation was anything that helps a living thing survive in its environment.  An example of a physical adaptation would be a tiger's brown, black, and or gray stripes which help it conceal itself in tall grass.  

Sometimes animals can develop behavioral adaptations.  Behavioral adaptations are activities that help an animal survive.  For example, birds learn over time to build nests to provide shelter, warmth, and to protect their young.  Another example would be hyenas who hunt by following large packs of animals and preying on the weak ones.  This is a behavior that allows them to obtain the food they need to survive.

For your blog post today, let's think outside of the science world and more specifically to human behavior.  Put yourself in this situation and decide what you would do.  You are kidnapped by somebody who is going to try to kill you in five seconds.  You have a knife on you.  If an adaptation is anything that helps a living thing survive in its environment, would you adapt your behavior and kill that person, or not?  If you decided to kill them, would that be an adaptation or murder?  Explain your decision and defend your answer using science, real life experience, what you think your family would want you to do, or anything else that comes to your mind!  

-Ms. Cedillo & Ms. Waffles