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Originally Posted by elcreative
I'll agree you can learn things from fiction but it does not equal knowledge and it is not essential... also extrapolating from leebase's comments (which clearly relate to books and fiction) to things like medical care and knowledge, is simply being disingenuous by trying to equate things which are clearly not equal.
No medical care = very bad.
No knowledge (probably non-fiction) = very bad.
No fiction = maybe irritating, annoying whatever but (by most of the world's definitions) not even noticeable except for those who have the luxury of the spare time and finance required.
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I agree with you. And YET, it's STILL demonstrably true the high priced medicine is also a virtue.
I take a blood pressure medication that is generic. It is generic because there is a time limit on patents. Once that time limit expires, then the cost of the drug plummets to near the cost of manufacturing it. Today's high priced drugs are tomorrow's generic drugs. Society benefits even when individuals can't afford the latest/greatest drugs.
Were there no such protection (copyright, patents) then there would be no ability to recoup investment plus profit. It is a virtue and blessing for society that so much money can be made in creating drugs because THAT's why folks invest in making drugs.
Lee