Originally Posted by
blayze
I think you guys need to distinguish between your own personal values (which are noble and decent) and those of corporations which have no feelings and are largely (if not solely) driven to profit.
What's so profitable about a one-and-done cure? So a company gets a few months of positive press and then one subsequent year of record sales and earnings. And then what? How is that more profitable than the recurring profit stream from the LITANY of expensive, largely government-funded drugs, therapies and treatments that have been existence for the last several decades that patients continually have to rely on to survive?
I'm not arguing with you guys about what's right or wrong here... this is not an ethical discussion. Just pointing out the economic realities. I've interviewed the executives of these firms as part of our extensive due diligence on their companies before we invested hundreds of millions... I'm simply telling you guys how it is.
I think you are forgetting two key things here.
Every company is run by PEOPLE. Yes they are profit driven but they are also run by people with feelings just like you and I. I find the whole emotionless corporation thing too easy an excuse to use.
Secondly, if you find a cure for cancer in the form of a drug, you then have one of the most marketable drugs on the planet. This is a cure for a disease, not the destruction of the cancer gene. Even a vaccine for cancer would be profitable. The only way to not make money is to completely and utterly destroy any chance of cancer ever occurring in any person. So is there money in a cure? Hell yes.
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