Because unfortunately there's no law to say you can't behave like an asswipe.
As you noted, just the opposite is true. The law explicitly *encourages* cops to act like asswipes -- as long as TERRORISM!
we could see a big market crash again, perhaps worse than ever before.
That's over a hundred years away. People said in the '70s that growth was going to stop and we'd all be eating dirt. It didn't happen. Why? Because the world doesn't just consist of the U.S. and Europe. Massive growth in Japan, China, and India over the past 5 decades has fueled greater earnings on Wall Street than ever before.
So what happens when we can't count on growth from Asia? Nothing -- we still have Africa and South America for cheap labor, a rising consumer class, and vast (mostly untapped) resources. And this doesn't even take into account any new technologies that could further reduce corporate expenses (substantially cheaper energy, for example).
So yes, eventually additional growth will be impossible, and the system will collapse (unless we've moved substantially away from our current system). But we'll all be long dead by then.
The notion of a "personal relationship with God" is largely a post-Enlightenment concept
Post-Enlightenment? It was at the core of Enlightenment religious thinking.
That means that either those extra pumps are redundant, in which case you're wasting precious space and weight lugging around needless baggage
Yes, that's why we don't have 2 of any other organs. Oh, wait
in which case a multi-pump design simply multiplies the chances of (cascade) failure.
Yes, that's why it's not possible to design a system where one acts as a backup and/or reinforcement rather than as a single standalone actor. Oh, wait
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.