spike wrote:Capitalism could actually prevent stem cell related medical treatments in Europe. This is because of a law against patenting anything that uses embryos for industrial or commercial gain. If it can not be patented then the major companies involved in taking treatments such as these and making them readily available will not touch them. They will not invest money to test a product or procedure that anyone can copy. Without investment these treatments will remain nothing more than interesting concepts in a laboratory x
Not much of an anti-capitalist argument here
dawn. You are just, what they call, cheery picking. Capitalism is also about protecting intellectual property.
You are playing a childish and obvious game that any fool can call you on.
You argument goes like this:
1) Capitalism is Good.
2) All good things that you can find in a society with capitalism must be capitalist.
3) All things on earth that are bad are not capitalist.
It's a bit pathetic really.
Please Note: this Forum is not a political rally where you can say anything regardless of reason. It is a Philosophy site, and as such there are people here who are looking at the content of
argument, not your political appeal with rhetoric and polemic.
The simple fact is that "Intellectual Property Rights" is not an inherent quality of capitalism.
This near universal idea, IPR can be found in most societies including non-capitalist ones.
You can also find in early capitalist societies an absence of this idea.
IPR is not the invention of, nor a necessary property of capitalism.
Let's pay another game:
Poverty, Pollution, Disease, Warfare, Technological Disasters, Bad Art, Dog Shit are all things that a capitalist society generates - therefore capitalism is bad.
