[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

What makes intelligent beings acts differently from non-intelligent things? How do you distinguish between actions that are done based on intelligent decisions and non-intelligent ones?

Intelligent beings make decisions after evaluated possible options, which may have complex relationships with their consequences. It requires capacities related to intelligence, such as memory quantity and fidelity, data processing speed, and efficient algorithms.
Less intelligent beings can only solve simpler problems.

Good chess players make many bad moves. They just make those moves in their minds, so they don't count. Many brilliant chess moves may look like stupid moves at a glance, such as sacrificing queen.

[Just thinking]

Good chess players make many bad moves. They just make those moves in their minds, so they don't count. Many brilliant chess moves may look like stupid moves at a glance, such as sacrificing queen.

But in the real world we don't sacrifice people for germs. Having said that there are people in the world that have no more value than a germ.

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

If your goal doesn't need sacrifices, it's not important enough.
But we often see unnecessary sacrifices, just to make a goal look important. All while doing nothing to make the goal more achievable. Or even worse, making it harder to achieve it.

[Just thinking]

If your goal doesn't need sacrifices, it's not important enough.

There is always sacrifice with everything we do such as time.

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

If your goal doesn't need sacrifices, it's not important enough.

There is always sacrifice with everything we do such as time.

sacrifice:

an act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy.

What do you sacrifice time for?

[Just thinking]

If your goal doesn't need sacrifices, it's not important enough.

We sacrifice time for what we consider important. This sounds like catch 22 again.

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

If your goal doesn't need sacrifices, it's not important enough.

We sacrifice time for what we consider important. This sounds like catch 22 again.

Our time is expended whether or not we do something important with it.

So when you said

There is always sacrifice with everything we do such as time.

What we really sacrifice are other things that we could have done but we must abandon or postpone because of the things that we are doing.

[Just thinking]

What we really sacrifice are other things that we could have done but we must abandon or postpone because of the things that we are doing.

We need to shift all of our time to the important things that make the sacrifices worthwhile.

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

What we really sacrifice are other things that we could have done but we must abandon or postpone because of the things that we are doing.

We need to shift all of our time to the important things that make the sacrifices worthwhile.

How would you decide which thing is more important than others?

[Just thinking]

How would you decide which thing is more important than others?

We must prioritise and coordinate all the things that matter.

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

How would you decide which thing is more important than others?

We must prioritise and coordinate all the things that matter.

That's what I asked. How would you prioritize them? What's the justification for sacrificing one thing over the others?

[Just thinking]

How would you prioritize them? What's the justification for sacrificing one thing over the others?

The things that matter are the important things that we must prioritise. The most important things are the needs we have to sustain our lives food before alcohol clothing before sigerattes rent before holidays tools before toys. Common sense must be in place ahead of fun and games.

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

The most important things are the needs we have to sustain our lives food before alcohol clothing before sigerattes rent before holidays tools before toys.

Let's make explicit what assumptions we have to make in making that statement above.
Whose lives should we try to preserve? Is it our own self as individual? What do you think about altruistic behaviors?
Is there something more important than your own life?
Why sustaining lives is considered as good thing?

[Just thinking]

Let's make explicit what assumptions we have to make in making that statement above.
Whose lives should we try to preserve? Is it our own self as individual? What do you think about altruistic behaviors?
Is there something more important than your own life?
Why sustaining lives is considered as good thing?

I think altruistic actions are important and one should always accommodate kindness and support others. The problem arises when supporting others outside of our own family create less than your expectations for your own loved ones this statement supports the old saying family comes first. Charity is possible by means of surplus and available time, money and goods.

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

Let's make explicit what assumptions we have to make in making that statement above.
Whose lives should we try to preserve? Is it our own self as individual? What do you think about altruistic behaviors?
Is there something more important than your own life?
Why sustaining lives is considered as good thing?

I think altruistic actions are important and one should always accommodate kindness and support others. The problem arises when supporting others outside of our own family create less than your expectations for your own loved ones this statement supports the old saying family comes first. Charity is possible by means of surplus and available time, money and goods.

We need a reliable moral compass to answer those questions with confidence that we won't regret them in the future.
And that compass is the universal terminal goal. There are many other questions we can think of. Let's start with simpler case where family factor is excluded from consideration, since it's balanced for both options in a decision.

Which one is better: Someone sacrificing themself to save their parent, or someone sacrificing themself to save their children? What's the reason?

Here's another: Someone young and healthy sacrificing themself to save their sibling with birth defects, which is physically and mentally disabled, or someone with birth defects, who is physically and mentally disabled, sacrificing themself to save their sibling who is young and healthy? What's the reason?

[Just thinking]

Which one is better: Someone sacrificing themself to save their parent, or someone sacrificing themself to save their children? What's the reason?

This is a very interesting question. My answer to this is actually a reversal as I love my wife and son so much and my first priority is to protect them if I was to die I could not carry out this priority so my answer may sound selfish but I would rather free them first of this dangerous world or at the very least see my son grow to an age where he can protect himself.

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

Which one is better: Someone sacrificing themself to save their parent, or someone sacrificing themself to save their children? What's the reason?

This is a very interesting question. My answer to this is actually a reversal as I love my wife and son so much and my first priority is to protect them if I was to die I could not carry out this priority so my answer may sound selfish but I would rather free them first of this dangerous world or at the very least see my son grow to an age where he can protect himself.

The answer doesn't have to be one fit for all. It may depend on other factors not mentioned in the question. For example, if the parents are already very old, with degenerative diseases, and no longer have the capacity to survive on their own, then sacrificing their children to extend their declining lives doesn't seem to be wise. 
The sacrifice itself doesn't have to be an acute action. It can also be chronic, such as cross subsidy. Less resources are given to less productive citizen, while more resources are given to more productive citizen, at least potentially.

[Just thinking]

I've got a joke for U: Why can a good Muslim have 4 wives? A whole set, of 'em.
So he can have a blonde, a brunette, a blackette and a redhead.
That's a good system. That's what every man needs. "Variety is the spice of life".
And they say that a man needs a good workout 4 times a week, and that's the best kind. Right?
"Strength thru joy" and all that.

But/t what I'm really trying to say, to U, is that warriors are not concerned with petty concerns/questions,
and I'm more of a pre-Socratic/natural philosopher, and I have a Spartan morality.

Is this like something U want/ed?

I like your philosophy and you have revealed your nature quite well. As for the four wives, I asked my wife and she said no I can still dream. I like the parable of your heart on the left and your brain on the right maybe not a parable at all.

[Just thinking]

The answer doesn't have to be one fit for all. It may depend on other factors not mentioned in the question. For example, if the parents are already very old, with degenerative diseases, and no longer have the capacity to survive on their own, then sacrificing their children to extend their declining lives doesn't seem to be wise. 

This is true hopefully the children are not so young and have already proven that they can look after themselves this type of situation can give some peace of mind to the one about to pass.

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

I've got a joke for U: Why can a good Muslim have 4 wives? A whole set, of 'em.
So he can have a blonde, a brunette, a blackette and a redhead.
That's a good system. That's what every man needs. "Variety is the spice of life".
And they say that a man needs a good workout 4 times a week, and that's the best kind. Right?
"Strength thru joy" and all that.

But/t what I'm really trying to say, to U, is that warriors are not concerned with petty concerns/questions,
and I'm more of a pre-Socratic/natural philosopher, and I have a Spartan morality.

Is this like something U want/ed?

I like your philosophy and you have revealed your nature quite well. As for the four wives, I asked my wife and she said no I can still dream. I like the parable of your heart on the left and your brain on the right maybe not a parable at all.

There are some parts of India where a woman can have many husbands so they can share economic burden.