Ah, okey. :) It takes a special kind of hero to come face to face with doctors and leaders from all over the world after discovering the cure to cancer, and, after being offered the ability to write his own cheque as the cost of sharing, he tells them to go screw themselves.
The special kind of hero being someone with the sadistic mindset of Stardust the fucking Space Wizard. Seriously, the richest nations in the world offering ANYTHING for the ability to cure one of the worst conditions plaguing mankind, and he refuses to even consider sharing? What?!?
He could have asked them to help out people in Africa by providing better healthcare, jobs and famine relief, things that he berates from for not doing anyway, but his myopic view is far more important than the millions of lives he could potentially save.
And really, if, say, England discovered penicillin at a time when no one else could replicate it and refused to share it with anyone else, how long before every other country in the world gangs up on them and declares war?
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Date: 2012-08-26 09:28 pm (UTC)The special kind of hero being someone with the sadistic mindset of Stardust the fucking Space Wizard. Seriously, the richest nations in the world offering ANYTHING for the ability to cure one of the worst conditions plaguing mankind, and he refuses to even consider sharing? What?!?
He could have asked them to help out people in Africa by providing better healthcare, jobs and famine relief, things that he berates from for not doing anyway, but his myopic view is far more important than the millions of lives he could potentially save.
And really, if, say, England discovered penicillin at a time when no one else could replicate it and refused to share it with anyone else, how long before every other country in the world gangs up on them and declares war?