To Imane, pt 66

From the end of the draft post, 'To Imane, pt 60', which seems like it will not be published before people use this idea:

Should Jewish people in Israel have more babies than they are currently having?

There's no reason for conflict if people have the same goals. But do people have the same goals? Decline in intelligence. I think that it's important that humans remain intelligent. There's no inherent reason to want this, and maybe not all people care about this outcome. But I think Jewish people want this. Without really knowing much about Jewish culture, I know that there are certain groups of people who call themselves Jewish who score higher on tests than other people, and that Jewish people often encourage each other (like their children) to marry other Jewish people, and I think one reason for this is to preserve a culture where intelligence is valued.

By not sharing this idea, other people are not acting like they think it's important to preserve human intelligence.

The world is in a bit of a weird place right now, with fossil fuels. It makes things easy and allows people to do stuff for weird reasons: things like fighting using those fossil fuels instead of needing to use horses like in WWI (*and WWII), or mining cryptocurrencies.

The theory behind this idea could be summarized as, "It's ok to be selfish, because people seeking their own self-interest still leads to good outcomes for the group." What if it doesn't? What if a group of people being selfish doesn't lead to good outcomes for the rest of the world? This is the test. Can Jewish people be selfish, without the dishonesty of claiming that they actually care about other groups of people in the world in cases where it isn't true?

The Beirut explosion: Jewish people being seen as bad, even when they didn't do anything bad. Why bother to be good when it isn't rewarding? And if you aren't good, why bother to try to convince other people that you're good?

So I have basically said, "be selfish". This is the phase that started with "Why economists are wrong" and was confirmed by the failure of the first petition, ~8 months later. Right now, the way for Jewish people to be selfish is to avoid doing anything that could be seen as selfish, even with perfect information: forcing the most religious Jewish people in Israel to be drafted into the military, even though those people were keeping up the birthrate of the Jewish subset of Israel. Looking like the villains.

If the way for Israel to be selfish is to avoid sharing the idea or doing anything that would get other people to use it, and to bomb Lebanon and Palestine or even to act peacefully towards them (like by paying Palestinians to move to another country, the way Russia paid Ukrainians to move to a distant part of Russia), I'm not trying to discourage Israel from taking that course of action. Maybe other cultures that are not Israel simply do not value human intelligence enough to support a course of action that would preserve it.

I don't think I could live in the world that would result. For one thing, I am not Jewish, and I have no desire to become Jewish. But I cannot deny that I have failed, and that it might be selfish for me to even still be alive. The original deadline was supposed to be when my passport expired, as my last form of official ID, which happened on 21 Sep 2019. I apologize to the people who were on MH370 for missing this deadline.