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This open letter, addressed to European political leaders, builds upon an earlier article, ["European Accelerationism"](https://www.santiago-martins.com/european-accelerationism-eu...), which garnered positive feedback from both entrepreneurial and political stakeholders, and was notably mentioned in FT Alphaville and Marginal Revolution. Additionally, this petition aligns with the spirit of blog-driven policy making, which has seen recent successes, as detailed in an article from The Economist: [How to Change the Policy of the British Government](https://www.economist.com/britain/2023/11/30/how-to-change-t...).

Given the recent European elections, these proposals are particularly pertinent as they offer a timely opportunity to shape policy agendas that can drive significant and meaningful progress across the continent. These proposals are selected based on their robust evidence base, their capacity to garner cross-ideological support, their foundation on successful precedents, and the existing political momentum behind them.

To add your name to the list of signatories please fill in [this form](https://forms.gle/DGtASNPqh8RWk3Dt8).

> Second, we reveal the “Where’s Daddy?” system, which tracked these targets and signaled to the army when they entered their family homes.

This sounds immoral at first, but if proportionality is taken into consideration, the long term effects of this might be positive, ie fewer deaths long term due to the elimination of Hamas staff. The devil is in the details however, as there is clearly a point beyond which this becomes unacceptable. Sadly collective punishment is unavoidable in war, and one could argue that between future Israeli victims and current Palestinian ones, the IDF has a moral obligation to choose the latter.

> Fourth, we explain how the army loosened the permitted number of civilians who could be killed during the bombing of a target.

This article below states the civilian to militant death ratio in Gaza is 1:1, and for comparison the usual figure in modern war is 9:1, such as during the Battle of Mosul against ISIS. They may still be within the realm of moral action here, but the fog of war makes it very difficult to assess.

https://www.newsweek.com/israel-has-created-new-standard-urb...

I’m unsure why the UN + Arab Nations don’t take control of the situation, get rid of Hamas, provide peacekeeping, integrate Palestine into Israel, and enforce property rights. All this bloodshed is revolting.

The great thing about free markets however is that companies that offer remote working have a great competitive advantage by virtue of that alone.

It's currently at 120 subscribers and in the latest issue I shared a study showing an unexpected overlap in the demographics of the BLM and anti-lockdown protest participants in the USA, the U-shaped relationship between income and fertility rate, and a mapping I did of per capita income vs average working hours per year in select countries.

I post three things I find interesting, once a week. Very simple and to the point.

I’m at just a tad over 100 subscribers at time of writing. In the latest issue I shared some research on the “Pink Tax”, a blog sharing MacOS command line tools, and a Twitter thread demistifying a lot of the debate around water quality in the U.K.

For more long form content you can find me on medium: https://medium.com/@duartem where my writing has had over 25,000 reads over the years.

Alternatively I also have a (Jekyll) website at https://www.Santiago-Martins.com

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