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Personally I don't think we can truly call ourselves civilised whilst we persist in valuing our fellow humans' health and their very lives in terms of financial
by rollthehard6 11y ago
Personally I don't think we can truly call ourselves civilised whilst we persist in valuing our fellow humans' health and their very lives in terms of financial currency.
- imaginenore 11y agoIf we want companies to keep making drugs, we either socialize them and pay them from our taxes, or we let them make profits. Drug research and production is extremely expensive. And so are the recalls and the lawsuits.
- IndianAstronaut 11y agoThis routinely happens everywhere on the planet. We could protect our citizens from being in car accidents, getting murdered, etc. But those all cost money, and we have made a decision to not spend more money(to hire lots of police, to build lots of public transport) to prevent those deaths.
- cbd1984 11y agoEverything costs resources. Whether you account for that in terms of money or some other method is irrelevant.