Given the rate at which people would become mentally or physically disabled because of diseases, you could argue it would have a network effect (probably a better term exists): I would have more chances to meet people and influence them, to learn something useful, to accumulate and use wealth for the above, so yeah...
Despite being a very human-centered series from what I heard, it had too much "space-awe" in its presentation.
That stuff is boring as hell to me, bordering offensive as I am more of a "Whitey's on the Moon" kind of guy.
Counting and therefore distributing spoils fairly.
I would become a well-loved chief and would probably get laid more than I currently do, although the hairy partners may not be of my liking.
That happens first, then one more time you will be faced with the same choice, and you will remember that happened and that you were already wiser once.
This is actually my very favorite kind of reasoning to oppose to conspiracy theorists.
I don't use food though, because people rarely think of death as a consequence of tampering with food: I use air travel.
"So you say I shouldn't trust anyone, I see... So you don't fly anywhere?"
"What has that anything to do with it?"
"Do you realize how many different people are involved in running checks just to keep you alive at any given moment of a flight and even in the airport?"
Usually these people drive everywhere and are borderline against the existence of public transport, so using trains or subway lines doesn't work.
My grandfather had a chemistry lab in the San Lorenzo area in Rome and one day due to a heated discussion with his mother-in-law, arrived late for work.
As soon as he put the key in the door of the lab, an Allied bomb hit the lab leaving little more than the door he was opening standing.
He survived that day, one of the highest death tolls in Rome in WWII.
You are probably overestimating how much thought everyone who expressed a disagreeable moral here gives to that issue.
Theists are the last of my problems.
Running water would allow for 30% reduction in bacteria, according to some sources.
Also, in that time period soap was known in Spain, France and Italy, and I personally made it in the summer using either olive oil or pork fat.