&gt; One can object to the fact that the means of pharmaceutical production are privately owned, but given that these are not currently non-profit institutions, the outrage seems misplaced.<p>The outrage with the outcomes is the only way a society to addressing the question of the appropriateness of the structures which produce the outcomes. That it is a natural outcome of the existing structure doesn&#x27;t mean that it isn&#x27;t absurd, though it might mean that if it is absurd, it is only because the structure of which it is a natural consequence is <i>also</i> absurd.