Yes there are - the goal is to survive. This is hard coded into any entity.
What’s the primary goal of any for profit business? To survive for eternity - going concern in perpetuity that is hopefully very valuable.
What’s the primary goal of any for profit business? To survive for eternity - going concern in perpetuity that is hopefully very valuable.
These ideas are not wrong, but they are teleological. They are about the purpose of things. And nature doesn't come with purposes, it's all something we impose on it.
That is the presumption others are calling you out for. Things very clearly act appear to act with purpose, they just clearly don't provide it for themselves. You are presuming one solution to the problem (that appearance does not hold in reality), but there is another one.