Do yourself a favor and read "The Consumers Union report on licit and illicit drugs" (1972). It will answer that and many other questions. You can read it for free online: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/cumenu.htm Often times the thing that makes the drug 'bad ' is not the drug itself, but the laws and stigmas against it.

IIRC ants do this, it's the old ones that are sent out of the next to forage as it's the most dangerous job.

It is that simple, and the research you speak of linking autism to vaccination was falsified. Look it up.

In the stores in my area, it's not so much of a loyalty card discount, but more of a non-loyalty card penalty. I choose, 99 times out of 100, to shop at stores that don't require a loyalty card as a result. Hate carrying around all those damn cards anyway.

I laugh when I hear a mattress ad on the radio and they say they will beat any competitors price by 10%. Well no shit, you know full well nobody has the same mattresses as you, you just put a different tag on the bottom. One store it's a 'sleep king' the other store it's a 'dream master'. See, different mattress!

'Survival of the fittest' became largely irrelevant in humans once we became capable of passing complex information between individuals and generations. Survival of the fittest still exists, but it's not in the individual organism but rather in the ideas, societal structure, and technological innovations that we devise that helps improve us as a species. For reading on this topic you might as well go to the source and read 'The Selfish Gene' by Richard Dawkins.

The argument that we'd all be better off if we were forced to compete in some grand primitive indirect battle to the death is a really tired one. I'm not sure why people cling to it so much, maybe it's because they think they would come out on top. But truthfully, I'm happy that we've (mostly) left this part of our history and progressed to longer life spans and comfortable lifestyles. It's easy to sit in your comfortable chair and type on your computer that costs more than most people live off of for an entire year and spout nonsense like this. But if you were in some country where you were not so fortunate, and people around you were dying of simple diseases, and you were actually experiencing the process of 'natural selection', you might have a very different opinion.

Google says they put a button in in the 2009 model year. Press and hold to turn traction control off. Although the Rav4 has AWD, I wouldn't necessarily call it off-road. It doesn't have a lot of ground clearance and when the snow blows high in my back alley I've gotten it stuck a couple of times and had to dig it out.

My Rav4 doesn't have a button to disable traction control, and it's resulted in me being stuck one or two times in snow over the last few years. The tires will just refuse to spin with it enabled. You can disable it, but the procedure is ridiculous:

http://www.spokanister.net/vehicles_RAV4_VSC_TC.htm

I like to think of it more as carbon sequestration.

So tell me exactly how life expectancy would increase with wide scale civil unrest, starvation, murder and suicide.