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Which is morally appropriate? - Charlemagne - 02-24-2016
What would you do if you found the cure to cancer? Sell it or make it free for everyone?
RE: Which is morally appropriate? - Sirius - 02-24-2016
Give it free to the people, but sell it to an organization. Hopefully they don't require to get paid.
RE: Which is morally appropriate? - Charlemagne - 02-24-2016
(02-24-2016, 09:16 PM)Sirius Wrote: Give it free to the people, but sell it to an organization. Hopefully they don't require to get paid.
That's what I was thinking. Or keeping it to yourself and selling it for $50 so people on minimal wage can afford it.
RE: Which is morally appropriate? - Howard - 02-24-2016
Both of those are unrealistic. If you found a cure and tried to release it you'd be killed, or you'd disappear. I'm sure there is a cure out there but cancer is a 124.6 billion dollar industry. Hypothetically though I'd have to sell it, the cure wouldn't be free but it I'd make sure I didn't make much of a profit to keep the cost low.
RE: Which is morally appropriate? - Charlemagne - 02-24-2016
(02-24-2016, 09:26 PM)Noot Wrote: Both of those are unrealistic. If you found a cure and tried to release it you'd be killed, or you'd disappear. I'm sure there is a cure out there but cancer is a 124.6 billion dollar industry. Hypothetically though I'd have to sell it, the cure wouldn't be free but it I'd make sure I didn't make much of a profit to keep the cost low.
The scientist Dr. Samir Chachoua claims to have found and cure and has had many attempts on his life. Obviously my question is simply hypothetical.
RE: Which is morally appropriate? - Jacob_mybb_import13674 - 02-24-2016
I would infect people with cancer and have them pay me to cure it.
They wouldn't know I did it, of course.
But easy money.
RE: Which is morally appropriate? - Jebusfathead - 02-24-2016
Give it away for free , selling it would just be too much work.
RE: Which is morally appropriate? - Krados - 02-24-2016
Give it away for free for people who need it simply without giving the way on how to make the cure because some companies might take the way and then sell it in the whole world, and also giving the cure individually is basically better than giving it to people who request because (again) people might sell it.
RE: Which is morally appropriate? - Zodiac - 02-27-2016
Easy question. I wouldn't even think about it. I'd give it to people for free. Yeah, you could make an absolute bomb from selling it, but when it can save millions of people's lives, that's more important. So yeah, give it away.
RE: Which is morally appropriate? - Silence - 03-01-2016
Obviously I would sell copies of the research to various organizations - with a slight variation to each - for massive amounts of profit. Then I'd ask for close friends/family to find people suffering from it, and give it to them free of charge. Of course, it'd go through multiple middlemen as that's a very tricky business, with the whole 'cancer is a very profitable branch of research'.