I'm not sure how this is a failure of the framework of utility maximization? Self-destructive behavior would be considered utility-maximizing.
Utility theory is agnostic about the content of preferences. It is perfectly consistent with utility theory for an agent to want to kill itself. Or to do something which leads to its death.
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That's exactly why it's poorly grounded.
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It's just abstracting away those details. Utility theory allows you to ground your problem in biology by specifying biologically plausible preferences. But if that's not important for your problem, you don't have to.
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