It’s just a spectrum, scale, continuum, whatever you want to call it. Many of us in the US are well fed or overly so, healthy or managed/diagnosed/treated, air conditioned, cozy, and relatively wealthy. Most of us are all soft and safe (and whiney as you say) when compared to the rest of the earth’s population. I would say complacent. But almost everyone still wants “theirs” and that has not changed at all from the survival days. Humans will human.
In the survival times humans will animal.