Yes, take for example all of the patricides, matricides, infanticides, suicides, and what have you. If survival of the group, let alone the species, was some mindless aim, where does it all come from? It cannot all be bad hair days and that time of the month.
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Even insects, which are little more than basic stimulus-response machines, have a drive to survive.
Remember, organisms lacking this drive would quickly disappear from the breeding population, leaving only those who had it.