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Lost my Mom a month ago, so sorry for your loss too.

The anti-American, anti-Objectivist, anti-freedom, anti-reason, anti-reality troll Jon struck again in this thread.

If you do a search there is discussion in other threads from around the time of this one on that exact subject here. Mainly the answer is that the government should be funded primarily via private donation and that individuals will pay for the proper functions of government in that manner, and also contract fees and things of that sort. For example, businesses or wealthier homeowners will donate for police and military protection. There will still be, especially near the beginning of a fully Capitalist system where all prosperity is still rising, where there would be "free riders" but that is fine, and one has to also remember how much cheaper it would be to run a proper government that is limited to its only function of protecting individual rights only instead of the countless ways that they currently waste money both explicitly and implicitly while currently doing things that proper governments are barred from engaging in.

I will make one statement about the misintegration that caused this question since I am not here to teach the most advanced physics and philosophy in details to those that make such incorrect misintegrations of knowledge in their own minds. An eternal, unbound, and finite Universe does *not* imply a "static" Universe. The Universe is always changing and even the fact that their was a "Big Bang event" in our local part of the Universe (that was a "local" phase transition caused by the formation of our localverse's containing black hole ((our localverse "expands" into the wider containing Universe as that black hole grows))) does not contradict the fact that the Universe is in a sense eternal and finite and not "static" which was what Miss Rand meant but lacked the correct scientific knowledge to explicitly state. Due to a "duality" the entire actual Universe of each "local Universe" contained as a 10 + phi dimensional quantum entangled holographic projection "within" each event horizon (and we live in one of the those in one half of a "broken" Supersymetrical state) the entire actual Universe of each local Universe "inside" each black hole event horizon all summed together in an unbound manner exist at one "eternal" Plank time and space after the full integration of all are done. There is no contradiction whatsoever to Objectivist metaphysics and the limited-scientific knowledge statements Miss Rand made at the time when this knowledge is fully known and integrated.

While this is a good post, the issue is that the mindless now coming to our site do not know how to think in terms or essentials or principles, and therefore there complete inability to think leads them to asking unimportant questions about irrelevant concretes as random floating abstractions and without first considering any principled reality based answers themselves. It just shows how much intelligence has massively dropped across the majority of the world's population over the last 20 years and that most individuals are becoming mindless zombies. Glad to be completely immune to that myself as an Objectivist and genius.

And one of the brain dead zombies responded already to another awesome and accurate analysis in the only way their mindless types can, with a laughing emoji from Jon the mindless zombie himself.

Nice to see that even though Stossel seems to partly accept the common false definitions of certain major concepts while explaining the correct definitions partly.

The answer is simple: his claims in this case are 100% contrary to the facts of reality, reason, and morality. Which is surprising that this huge contradiction on this issue some how occurred in his mind which is correct for the correct reasons in so many other cases in regard to Objectivism and its application to occurring real life concrete otherwise. He is one the side of good and reality in regard to the Israeli fight against terrorist evil for instance. But this stance in support of evil like Putin that is an ally of Israeli and America's main enemy Iran is just a complete blatant contradiction.

Right, I've lost all respect for whYNOT, mixed premises I can handle in people, but not when one of their bad/false premises includes support of evil on the level of Putin/Hitler and complete rejection of the side of the good in a such a major issue.

Gave this the crown it deserves before one of those MAGA conservative nutcase in Jon's case comes in with one of his insane anti-mind giggling emojis. The left and right are essentially the same and equally evil these days and their differences only superficial.

Everyone with a mind here needs to aggressively call out the dumb little mindless coward Jon every time he does one of his stupid little actions.

And the little coward idiot with no functioning mind strikes again with his little mindless queer smiles that he likes to give to other men because he's insane mindless and a dumb little idiot coward.

And of course the idiot coward Jon with no mind and an evil conservative pretending to have any link to Objectivism does his mindless laughing emoji.

There is no "rise" in autism. There are just people who create imaginary false diagnosis in a collectivist attempt to control the lives of others and sell unnecessary drugs.

David and Gus nailing it like usual!