[koosie]

That's charmingly gung-ho, PartyM, old pal but the truth is that it's in times like that that people discover they're stronger when they stick together and co-operate. Every man for himself gets picked off by the folks who have already made this discovery.

An analogy can be made with slime mold, which is a protozoa of damp places. When local conditions become adverse, millions of slime-mold organisms climb on top of each other to make a tower which collapses and reforms at the point of furthest collapse to make a new tower. These basic little things, not even complicated enough to be animals or plants become a temporary multi-celled being that effectively walks to a new environment before dispersing to become individual slime-mold again.