You need to get empirical. Clearly the only way to answer your important Q is to play until you experience an existential crisis, then climb a mountain to find a flower growing in the snow. Send us a post card with the answer.
Explain that the architectural dialectic demands that the means of support be born by the foundation; that the columns need to be liquidated as merely parasitising on the strength of that foundation; so that the glorious Architecture free of artificial classes of structure can be realised. Where the bourgeois requirements of physics give way to pure form. Where all is holistically foundation and roof, from each according to its strength to each according to its needs.
How can I convince someone I am not secretly informing on their lack of idealogical purity?
You have to practice saying everything as if you were lying. Then, when you actually lie, people will just assume that's your normal mannerism and that you're actually telling the truth.