From: wag5@quads.uchicago.edu (john peter wagner)
Subject: Re: SCRIPT : NEW HOPE
Reply-To: wag5@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:34:15 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.113330.21240@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> tlg4@po.CWRU.Edu (TJ Goldstein) writes:
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>I'm going to officially withdraw from this arguement.
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>I would, however, like to make it perfectly clear that I am 
>NOT pulling out because I have been out-argued -- I haven't --
>but because Wagner's arguement has degenerated into gibberish,
>and I have more valuable things to do with my time than point
>it up to him.  My sledghammer arm is tired.
>
>But because I am not a vengeful person, I am going to hereby
>post the hope that no-one he cares about ever dies because drug
>companies didn't think they could recover their R&D costs due
>to pharmaceutical piracy.  Happens all the time, I'm afraid.  People
>like Wagner who think they're entitled to anything that falls in
>their lap copy drugs on the market, drug companies can't recover
>their R&D.  So the only drugs that get developed are the ones
>with such a mass need they can't lose.
>
>So those with rare diseases suffer, die, and are buried.
>
>Congratulations, Mr. Wagner.  
>

Thank You. Yes, you are right. I repent.
Tomorrow I begin a crusade.
I will ask everyone who has a problem what that problem is,
and I will take every able-bodied, intelligent person in the
work force and put 100% of our time and effort into solving those
people's problems who have problems in as short a time as possible.
And yes, I have complete faith that I will completely remove all
human injustice, misery and death from the face of the planet through
my unwavering actions.
	Through our hard work and investment in capital 43 people
who die of a single rare disease will be saved.  But then, many
such diseases will be solved! Perhaps hundreds, even thousands will
be able to live a few more years! And that, my friends, means everything
to me.  Of course, those industries which do seem to rake in a profit
without government support will not receive attention, and perhaps
those peole who eem to demand a good so much to actually pay real
money for it will go without, but then, if they have so much money
who cares, right? They can always find an alternative.
	It is, however, absolutely necessary that we divert as much
of our finite resources as possible to attempting to save those
poor, unfortunate souls threatened by disease or happenstance.  After all,
if the government doesn't help them, who will? Nothing has been done to
assist people in need without the governments help, right?  And if they
do happen, they take too long, or wait for opportune discoveries, right?
	*Yah right*. Get real. If someone is dying they will happily
fork over half their 'life savings' to live longer. If you think
industry won't respond to that, you are mistaken.  Are Lamborghini's
sales protected by the government?  Not ours.  But peole seem to want
them and they pay for them. As a result, notwithstanding lack of protection,
the Japanese came out with a whole slew of sportscar look-alikes,
in respond to demand. Some may argue that in terms of price/performance,
a Toyota MR-2 is better than a Lamborghini.  But Goldstein would have
the Lamborghini protected, so it is only available to the rich, his
uncle Joe with the Porsche and the royalty income.  Yes, Mr. Goldstein,
if protection is removed maybe the companies will not be *panting*
to do research, but at least my family and those families who are
poor can benefit from what does happen witjout going into severe debt.
Again, you argue for a strict income class separated society, where
the rich will get the expensive, government protected drugs and
the poor will have to go into the debt of the rich, and thus the slavery.

	No, Mr. Goldstein, I think my family will do much better and
live much longer without any of your so called government help.

			J. Wagner

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