Let's make ride pod flavor popcorn :)

"Smartest" doesn't mean book smart or even common sense smart. Survival is a cockroaches game. In history where things were often very tough those who survived were the ones who when they had to make a choice between life and death chose life. That when they were at the last of the food they ate it, and when that ran out they ate the others before the others ate them. Society has evolved to reduce the brutality of choices we face but to still reward those who are most able to exert their will regardless of any morality or knowledge base. We cooperate as a society where it suits the individual, not as a collective to serve a greater good against our own self interest. Laws exist to guard commerce. We ban that which works against the interest of those in power continuing to be in power and accumulate wealth, such as that whichs undermines the stability required for steady commerce and control of conditions. That is why we don't legalize everything. It goes agiant the interests of power.

Some of the smartest people who have ever lived martyr'd themselves. If smarts really equaled survival that shouldn't happen.