>>So, one day when some private company owns your children's children's genes, you're ok with that as long as you have a piece of the pie?
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>Evil Corporations...sky is falling...blah, blah, blah

This is really profound.

Look, if Monsanto could get that farmer to pay dearly because his soybeans got crosspolinated with their plants (although they didn't actually belong to Monsanto, who only sold the GM seeds to the guy who owned the next field), don't be surprised if blah blah blah really happens.

>>Is "as long as I get mine" really the answer to everything?
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>Evil capitalist...greedy bastard...blah, blah, blah

May I be repeatedly amazed with your way with words?

>Take a good long look at the incredible advancements being made every day in the private sector. Everyone should be in on it. There are opportunities to get involved with anything you want.

So why does so much of publicly funded research end up as bringing profit to a certain few companies? We ARE involved by paying taxes, where's our share?

>Stem cell research? A quick search will show you a dozen public companies in the US alone. A couple of which are working on embryonic chains.

So then it's not murder regardless of what mr prez says? Or is it murder only when financed by our tax money, but not if we invest directly? You surely got me confused here.