It seems to be based up on an extract from a plant root- it should be cheap to produce in that case.
edit: i checked the company website- they want about $1000 a month!
edit: i checked the company website- they want about $1000 a month!
How should that be handled? Is every person equally deserving of it, or just the wealthy? Should a company be allowed to take in a thousand a month per person (particularly for a naturally occurring substance) or should governments maybe subsidise it for citizens? Or should it be made available for free, circumventing patent laws if needed?
I am free to produce the substance. If I produce it, it is my property. I own it. I may choose to keep it, or I may choose to trade it for someone else's property. I may ask twenty thousand dollars per gram if I like. No one may force me to trade my property for anything specific, or even to trade it at all, or even to continue producing it.
Et cetera, et cetera. Apply that same formula equally to each living being in the universe, and you have my view on the matter.
Also, no subsidies. A subsidy involves the taking of an individual's property by force, which is morally wrong.
IMO, there is no absolute morality, there are system of morality that are self consistent, but you cant transplant individual ideas between them to get an absolute truth.
You say there is no absolute morality. I don't know. The more interesting question is whether you disagree specifically with the moral principles I invoked, and how and why. I can't tell from your post.