NO those were my points not yours. I never claimed you were arguing my points, nor did I argue against my OWN points, that is the HUGE difference! You really truly don’t get this distinction do you?
doing even a small amount of cursory searching shows that this does indeed happen. Surprise, other countries develop medicine also, socialist countries, even communist ones… gasp
edit: i went on to comment that none of the other things you are saying I think are what i think, but deleted this portion because obviously pointing that out is pointless.
The short is that I honestly I don’t think that greed and money are the only motivators in the world or even the best ones for all areas. I don’t deny them, I just don’t discount the other human motivators. Profit motivation certainly doesn’t lead to the best art, music, science, or medicine. I understand we fundamentally disagree on this.
I get that we have VASTLY different world views, polar opposite in fact. Lets both agree to move along and to not comment on each others posts now or in the future, as any exchange we have is a vast waste of both of our time. Our previous exchange was equally fruitless, and noting is gained by clogging the comment threads with our disagreements. i think we can both agree on this out of respect to each other and our fellow boing boingers who don’t want to have to deal with such comment clutter.
can we respectfully agree to ignore each others posts and refrain from commenting on them? for our sake and the sake of other in these forums? thanks.
