but taking exactly your example, if AIDS was not a disease affecting rich people (and , the horror, heterosexual white males at that) there would have been almost no AIDS research at all (in the academia as well), so that people would die not only for 5 more years but for 50.
(and don't tell me the altruistic doctors of the world would have develloped the cure on their own, since the process of devellopment and QA of a cure is so work intensive it could not be done at present scales and speeds by volunteers or indipendant researchers) Greedy people can be used to the overwhole benefit at a cost. the cost may sometimes (as in your case) be very immoral, but unless you have a better method, we still need (balanced) greed. Tzahi Fadida wrote: >Lets see if I understand you correctly. A company created an AIDS cocktail. now, >because it was so expensive for them to create, they want a return in the short term, >i.e.: 3-5 years. Taking your perspective, would also mean that 1 third from the third >world can just stick their heads in the sand >and hope some miracle dust will cure them. This method is ridiculous, and should be >prohibited. Greedy >profiteers always existed throughout history enjoying the suffering of the weak and >helpless. >Thank you for clearing that out. > > -- -- regards +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Guy Baruch , Plasma Laboratory, Weizmann Institue. + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + phone: 972-8-934-2211 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've got something in your pocket that says, "In God We Trust" on it, please send it to your local church where it belongs, before it's too late! ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
