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#27 Apr 05 2007 at 1:49 AM Rating: Decent
gbaji wrote:
But no amount of facts will convince anyone I suppose.


Will convince anyone that what?

Just to make it clear, what you're arguing has nothing to do with the OP, right? You agree Novartis are, in this case, cUnts for trying to get India's law on patents changed, I assume?

What you are really arguing is that, some small drug companies sometimes go bust, and that this fact is a price big companies have to pay in order to make their giant profits.

Right?

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#28 Apr 05 2007 at 7:08 AM Rating: Default
its sad, but true. capitolism does not have a conscious. if it did, all drugs would be sold for cost. so would basic foods, and basic housing.

what the drug companies see is a need for a product they creat getting filled by intelectual piracy. money right out of their pocket. those governments would be forced to buy their product if it wasnt being made by a knock off company. millions, mabe billions of dollars right out of their pocket.

the media tosses a bad situation in front of you full of destitute people being denied medicine to sell you piracy as a good thing. the other side of the coin is those medicines are getting out of india and hitting black markets all over the world. allowing pissant third world contries to spend their meager resources on weapons because they dont have to spend as much on medicine. allowing middlemen to trade those medicines for personel wealth, weapons to sell, illegal drugs, or a host of other things totally unhumanitarian.

where do you draw the line?

and when the line is drawn, how many destitute people are "acceptable losses" if, forexample, some third world dirt hole couldnt buy bullets that year because they had to spend more for medicine so the people they oppress dont rise up and hang them? like Chavez for example? or how about iran? no nukes because they have no funds because a blood sucking company is soaking them for patent drugs?

bottom line? its ALWAYS the poor who pay the highest price. weather it is a war, capitolism, socialism, monarchy, or medical help.

and it is ALWAYS the rich who turn a blind eye to the needy to protect their interests from the sharks.

thats probably why Jesus said it would be easier to thread a camel through the eye of a needle than for a wealthy man to enter heaven.

the moral majority working HARD for you.......
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