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2DleftofU Donating Member (18 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 03:58 PM
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18. About time
Lives are more important than profit.
All (legal) drugs save lives or reduce suffering.
Therefore all drug company patents should be void.

And why limit it to drug companies, after all, with better sanitation, cheap power, etc. lives of the poor would be improved. All patents owned by a US citizen or company should be void.

And why limit it to patents? Shouldn't everybody be free to read anything? Lets get rid of copyrights too.

And developing countries should be allowed to ship their goods into the US, but where would they be without trademarks? In a competitive disadvantage - therefore any trademark used by a US company should be void as well.

And don't get me started on the restrictive policies of the FDA.

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