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That easily makes the top 3 list of most sociopathic things I've read all month, and between mass shootings and debates about refugees it's been a banner month for sociopaths on Facebook. Did you intend to measure the value of a human life in terms of enhancing shareholder value or is this just poorly worded?

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Let's ignore profit for a minute. These drugs still cost money to discover and produce. Who pays for it?

We put a price on human life all the time, not just for drugs.

Agreed and I find this utterly appalling. For me this is a damning indictment of capitalism and a clear indicator that there has to be a better way to handle task prioritization and resource allocation in a modern society.

Is there any system where you can avoid it? Even in a command economy system trade offs have to be made. If you have resources X to spend, you need to figure out what to spend it on. That means you're putting a dollar figure on a human life. I don't see how it could be avoided.

I don't claim to have answers and would definitely support experimentation in this arena. Political systems are certainly ripe for disruption.

Some people are only able to reason about things they can measure.

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