To Imane, pt 76

I thought I had commented something like this, and I was right. On
Gegon: New Ability! (2006), I commented on 07-09-06,

Gegon you were a legend, those who saw your movies will never forget you... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell us if you ever make more movies in other games! We need our heroes... and it would not be right for the Gegon legend to die...

I think I said something similar to Laura, in 2009. Her friend died from anaphylactic shock, leaving a daughter. I asked her friend's name, so that I could remember her, but unfortunately forgot her name. These conversations were on my military email account, so I don't have a record of them, but I think that I said to Laura that "the world needs heroes."

The implication was that I thought it was a good thing that her friend — who I think was the same friend that Laura had previously mentioned, as someone who would still be your friend even if you didn't talk to them for years — had a daughter, even if that daughter was now missing a parent. Allergies are typically something that someone knows about, and perhaps Laura's friend could be said to have taken a risk in whatever situation caused her to be exposed to an allergen, and I showed with this statement that I was not criticizing Laura's friend for taking that risk despite having a daughter.

(Note that 311006, which appears in my username on Warcraft Movies, is supposed to be the 31st kana, counting from 0, or "mi", and then the 10th, or "sa", and finally the 6th, or "ki".)

A question that, as with others, would have the potential to reach a wider audience if posted on a platform like Chirp Club, where people can share it:

"You are a female ant. You and your living sisters will never have children. In the future, your mother, the queen, will have special royal offspring that can start their own colonies, but you don't have that opportunity. You and your sisters have to take a vote: either you and all of your sisters each get an ant-sized smartphone for your entertainment, as well as a piece of candy as large as you are, OR all of your mom's descendants in two years each get an ant-sized smartphone, an ant-sized luxury car, and five pieces of candy."

The most selfish thing to do that most people can imagine is to do things that only benefit themselves. (Compare The Selfish Gene.) From there, doing things that help one's family; then maybe one's clan, or extended family; then one's country; then possibly one's religion, when it's larger than one country; then the world.

Most people don't even think about "the world in 100 years": they're proud if they can convince themselves that they care more for their family than for themselves. So young people now talk about how earlier generations were selfish and ruined the world for later generations, and the world is on track for people in 50 years to say the same thing about people who are young today.

"The world needs heroes" is what one thinks if one understands all of this.