But oh noes! Then you can't watch it right now! Really? Is your life so devoid of anything with meaning and direction that you can't pull yourself away from yet another mindless TV show?
If you are having dinner with your friends, and they want to talk about the ending of Avengers, are you the guy who puts his fingers in his ears saying 'la la la la' don't tell me anything, and shutting down the conversation your friends are having? Or do you simply not care about any fictional stories so don't care if the plots are spoiled?

Some people participate in pop culture shows, books & movies, and the conversations surrounding that pop culture is very time sensitive. If your friends are into something and keep talking about it, and encouraging you to watch, it drives you to stay current rather than wait for DVD's.

Whatever happened to self reliance? How many people can be reliant on others before it breaks the collective back of society?

I'm all for personal responsibility, and self reliance, but lets be realistic. Humans aren't like bears that wander their territory completely alone, and then once a year meet up with other bears to mate and then go their seperate ways. Humans are tribal, and live in a collective relying on each other. It is the very foundation of our species. There are several cliche'd phrases that apply such as- "no man is an island", "we must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately" and so on.

You might call it "voting with your feet".
Others might call it being driven from your home by a system they have little to no power to influence.

Are people in refugee camps merely voting with their feet? Sure I'm exagerrating to make a point, but whether you a fleeing a murderous warlord, or fleeing from tax laws you don't like, a lot of people do certainly object to being forced from their homes.

He has the unfortunate position of being the highest profile case in the past several years. Making an example out of his attempt to dodge taxes might discourage others from doing the same.

Even in the tropics the plants don't produce food year round and people need to adapt their diets based on the season. There are wet/dry seasons, and in the tropcis they have a "hungry season" for part of the year. But, fat stores are useful because hunter gatherers can face a food shortage at any time of the year.

While a hunter-gatherer diet is more "natural" and slightly healthier, surely you realize that the staple crops you listed are responsible for the population growth of the civilized world. Ignoring Wheat, Corn, Rice, Oats, Potatoes, would lead to mass starvation for 90% of the planet. Surely there must be some medium ground between fat or dead, with a healthy balance of cereal grains.

But i interact with $400,000 worth of stuff most people don't have to do it.

Show me an apartment anywhere that doesn't have a fridge and stovetop or oven or microwave. If you have $400k worth of kitchen equipment you are better off than most commercial kitchens that feed 1000+ people a day.

By disagree with evolution, I mean they refute the scientific evidence, and often manufacture their own pseudoscience.
By disagree with stem cell research, I am referring to their moral disagreement to the research as being interpreted as an "anti-science" stance by much of the mainstream scientific community.
Birth control is related because it represents man's mastery of our own body, by regulating reproductive functions through the use of science. Many religious conservatives think it is wrong to use birth control because it interferes with "God's will". A much much smaller percentage of religious people refuse any and all medicine. Personally, I think anyone who refuses to use chemistry and science to manage their life specifically because they think it will make an invisible diety mad, is anti-science. Though I realize some might find that a broad interpretation, it does represent my perspective of why I think some conservatives hate science.

Religious conservatives tend to disagree with Evolution, stem cell research, cloning research, birth control, carbon dating, geology, the fossil record, etc
Business conservatives tend to deny Climate change, hate the EPA, and often deride the "green" movement

I think these anti-science stances among some (not all) conservatives explains why people think they hate science.

The scanner is less invasive. It is easier for you, it is easier for the TSA. Getting a pat-down is inconvenient for everyone involved. It causes small delays for the entire line. From the 20+ times that I've been patted down, I'm pretty darn sure that most TSA agents do not like doing them.

Only a small percentage of people opt for the pat-down. If 100% of travellers chose the pat-down, so many people would miss flights and have to be rebooked there would be chaos, and airports would cease to function properly.

At this point, there would have to be either new rules saying that you MUST be nude-scanned, or the metal detectors and old security would return.