That's not necessarily true -- I think you could very convincingly argue that a secure Truecrypt is more valuable than some number of Watsi patients. What if Tr

That's not necessarily true -- I think you could very convincingly argue that a secure Truecrypt is more valuable than some number of Watsi patients. What if Truecrypt allows a journalist to expose some corruption that saves or benefits some equivalent number of lives? By allocating resources you are implicitly deciding that the target of your allocation is the most important thing to allocate your resources towards. I don't see how this could not be the case.