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To: gogeo

Pretty standard really. Do you believe that people can so use their property that they can cause harm? Can you even define “property?”


56 posted on 04/07/2016 2:02:58 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Do you believe that people can so use their property that they can cause harm?

How is a person "harmed" by someone creating a drug that can save their life?

If you spend some logical thought time on it, when politicians take away the profit incentive and because of that a drug does NOT get invented, the politicians themselves are the one doing harm.

57 posted on 04/07/2016 2:15:30 PM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
"Cause Harm?" Let's unpack that, using your example.

Number two; the argument 'I can do what I want with my property' is simply unreal as no legal system allows an owner to harm others with his property. I build a dam on my property that bursts and floods your land destroying your house, crops and animals, am I therefore free of any responsibility by interposing the idiot argument; 'it's my land and I can do what I please.'

That's an obvious case of causing harm, and a p!ss poor straw man argument. Those downstream would suffer harm to life, liberty, property, and the fruits of their labors, which are theirs by right...through the ACTIONS of others. That's the purpose and justification for government. No reasonable person would dispute that.

Taking away property rights, however, to a drug patent...your economic "discourse" is lacking. If one wishes to have drugs which, by definition, do not exist today...the price of resultant, successful drugs must include:

---Actual cost to develop the drug

---Actual cost to produce, market and distribute the drug

---A proportional share of overhead

---Unrecovered costs of unsuccessful drugs

---A realistic rate of return

---A risk premium to cover uncertainty...including risk of well meaning, entitled ignorami who presume to decide for others their 'appropriate' reward...those who would eat the seed corn today, then blame others when there's no corn tomorrow.

Yours is the morality of gangsters and should be shunned. Those who object to paying the true costs of innovation suffer no harm...unless one holds that health care is a "right." Is that your position?

Is it your position someone who shares or sells their property on their terms causes harm to others? If someone 'needs' my chain saw, and I decline to offer it, I'm causing harm? If I don't help?

Fascinating.

62 posted on 04/07/2016 7:41:49 PM PDT by gogeo (Donald Trump. Because it's finally come to that.)
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