You and I have been over this before.
A person doesn't have the right to drag me out of my house and shoot me. How do 10, 100, 1000, or 100,000,000 people acquire that right when as individuals they do not possess it?
They don't acquire that right; their actions never acquire a veneer of morality. They merely assert violence. And they are moral monsters.
The US is not foundationally a democracy, by the way. But I've explained this to you before. The nature of who and how the laws are made is basically irrelevant to the moral correctness of a society; there was originally some debate as to whether or not George Washington ought to be our first King as opposed to our first president.
By "half the population", I refer of course to the half that actually fund the federal government. The dependant half obviously never have anything pointed at them except fistfulls of my money. Those of us who provide may see the value in doing basic fundamental research and may already be funding it independantly of the amount that is currently coercively extracted.
That doesn't change the basic claim that I made: that currently, the US government pays for science via the veiled threat of breaking into homes and dragging people out, guns drawn.
Gary Johnson would be someone who would agree with much of what I say; he's a two-term governor and has climbed the highest mountain on most (if not all) the world's continents. I don't know who you think you know in "my" movement but I am happy with the physical and intellectual abilities of the few I'd consider my comrades.
For that matter, Ron Paul, now in his late 70s, challenged the other GOP "contenders" to a bike race through Houston in the summer heat. Nobody took him up on it.
In my conversations with you and others, a theme reoccurs. Nobody attempts to justify the morality of what they endorse, nobody questions the ethics of what I am suggesting. Everyone instead bitches about things I haven't discussed and may or may not agree with, and they posit that my stements represent an irrelevant marginal portion of society.
I don't mind being in the minority; I find that most of the progress of humanity has been the case of better ideas held in small numbers slowly overcoming poorer ideas held in larger numbers.
When you can explain to me why you think federal government funding of science is constitutional or ethical, I'd be happy to hear your explanation. But if history is any guide, the best you'll do is tell me that my ideas don't matter and I'm going to be stuck with yours whether I like it or not. And while you're probably correct, you still won't have answered the challenge, nor will you have successfully blanketed your naked opportunistic murderous lust for power with any veneer of morality at all.
Your move.
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