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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Once again, you are ignoring Burger's point about profits, which tends to suggest that you are wrong. Maybe you can work polygamy into your schtick.
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burger and I have reached agreement. He thinks that perhaps some limited price control over drugs in the patent period might result in a more optimum amount of research. I say, you're right it might, but 1) the risk isn't worth it 2) who to say the gov't can pick the right amount and 3) why make this industry different than everywhere else where innovation is made its own reward- Burger says because drugs are very important- i say all the more reason not to mess with it.
if you want to have apolygamy angle, consider- just as no one has the monopoly on wife/pussy- one can always find a slightly worse (or better) substitute/ addition; so to are drugs. there are no drugs that are the sole solution to any problem*.
*beside JWblack
