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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: BlueMondaySkipper
I assume people have more knowledge regarding contract than they really do have.

Have you ever heard of an "Adhesion Contract?" That is where one person has all the power in a bargaining position and the other party is free to pay what is demanded or walk away. Such contracts are controlled and rightly so.

A person would certainly be harmed if the drug company used its bargaining power viv-a-vis the consumer. The flaw in the Libertarian argument is their failure to recognize there is a vast difference in bargaining power among various persons, firms or entities. Imagine you personally going to a giant drug company and trying to bargain their price down for a drug that would save your five year olds life.

58 posted on 04/07/2016 2:34:53 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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