I tried to create a detailed response to this but in the end I gave up (also I have other things to tend to).

Please. It is not okay to keep supporting an idea until the minute the counter to that idea becomes available, when you'll be eager to benefit from the "counter" solution.

It was not okay for Ayn Rand to be a libertarian all her life, only to start collecting welfare checks at the end of her life when she went broke.

I'm not even getting into the practical aspects of how badly the pro-aging trance is affecting the funding problem.