They own the poor now. The rich are dictating, for example, that drug prices be out of their reach because the rich insist on expensive testing that only they can afford and disallow poor people from buying less expensive products because it doesn’t meet the standards of the rich. Poor people have to go to Mexico and to get affordable drugs that work for them. And, if they get caught bringing it across the border, they are considered criminals. I’m not seeing the love there.
There is no ethical problem with “testing” these products on poor people because it isn’t your decision. It is their decision. If they are so poor that they can only afford untesed drugs, and they want to make that choice, I find it unethical to stop them.
It is about freedom, harvey. Nothing more. You have every right to be careful about what you buy, and you have every right to only buy things that are fully tested. But, you don’t have the right to tell people what they can and cannot buy.
Look up some of Thomas Jefferson’s thoughts on banks and see if you don’t think we have strayed a bit from his thoughts on freedom.
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I’m not necessarily trying to sell you. Just trying to present a point without being defensive, abrasive or fanatical. I think we have both done that.
