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Natural selection? It also ensures that only those who know how to survive in a desert survive. A desert is good for contemplations and hallucinations; I speak from experience. It is also dreadfully dull if you are not the acetic religious type. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, not everything is a desert.
The repetitive cycle with that sort of a crew is also fairly boring. I'd rather run solo than put up with it.