I believe the general consensus is that humans are more equal than other animals. Don't know how the other animals feel about this. Are you too, suspicious of democracy and the peasant power that it might unleash ?

...secondly, if law enforcement can use metallurgic analysis to determine the exact batch of bullets a particular round came from...

They can't

Arthritis severely degrades the quality of life, and increases risk of some other deadly conditions. Obesity, however, will be worse.

But sales of aspirin and diet pills will go up up up...

...look where we are now.

Yeah, pretty sad, isn't it? Still burning kerosene, or some variant thereof, including hydrogen, for virtually everything. Instead of looking for "new" ways to fuel old machines, perhaps it might be better to redesign the machine.

Or even more accurately called the Illuminati, Stone Cutters, Merry Pranksters conspiracy.

"They just make it up as they go along. I could do that: dee dee-dee dee dee dee dee, dee dee dee ..."

...the value of social science...

How to domesticate a human

Consider the airlines. They seem to go bankrupt and reorganize and planes still fly.

*ahem*

Let's go back and prevent the Kennedy assassination. See if we would still be in Camelot..

So, should we abort Cain? Just to see who the number 2 guy was...

You are shown the alternative:

People are bringing shotguns to UFO sightings in Fife, Alabama. I asked a guy, "Why do you bring a gun to a UFO sighting?" Guy said, "Way-ul, we didn' wanna be ab-duc-ted." If I lived in Fife, Alabama, I would be on my hands and knees every night praying for abduction.

Play ball!