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Originally Posted by HarryT
If someone "clones" $500m of drugs to which AstraZenaca holds the patent, and donates those to the third world, the choice has been removed from the people who should be able to make it, regardless of the end result. I'm afraid that I consider it rarely the case that "the end justifies the means".
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The problem with the "capitalism at any cost" arguments in regard to health care is that you are dealing with life and death issues, and the arguments aren't going to be taken very seriously by someone who will die without the drugs.
What would a starving man do if he did not have the $2 a store owner demanded for bread? Walk away hungry? What happens to a patient who cannot afford the treatment that would save his life- he just dies? Because it is the "right" thing to do? I think even Ayn Rand might have a problem with that argument.