@desea making availiable E to anyone has the added side-effect of showing other big pharma the middle-finger by plummeting prices and stocks... muahhahaha (also E for everyone!)

@desea this somewhat reminds me of the unwritten moral rule i saw mentioned on here at some point which i uh basically agreed with: no matter how shitty a (trans) person is, it’s never under any circumstances valid to misgender them for it. similar here, i feel like the right to gender affirming medication is on a low enough of a base that it should be available to anyone who needs it.
Now the story would be different if, say, they buy it but it’s proven they don’t use it but do something else nasty with it like just sit on it so others don’t have it or resell scalp it.

@desea i think nazi or anti trans activists cutoff point could be reasonable from the perspective that a portion of your customer base would be out and about to murder the other bits of it. Healthcare as a right would make sense in a scenario where its covered by the state. If you can do social death on the worst people, instead of the best ones, that passes the low bar of ethics i think. Still this argument *only* works from the perspective of being a local provider. “Sorry youre fucking up my city, im not giving you shit” kind of deal.

If you are the largest company out there to provide the resource then you run the risk of anti trust sentiment, divebombed profits, protests outside the HQ buildings, having to create a public statement about what youre doing. This would have knockon effects of having to do layoffs etc.

I would argue on the other hand that mass unionization efforts in the company if not turning the entire company into a co op would not only counteract the customer cannibalism issue, it would make a much stronger statement on worker health as a large part of euphoria etc. getting people excited to work for the company and inspired to make companies like it would go much further.

@desea it would never be in your best interest to do this as a CEO. In fact the self interested thing to do would be having to raise the price of the resource to keep up with demand, profit on it, and then typically run those logistical chains more directly to the right wing groups slowly canniballing the others. In the meantime working on an international logistics network to replace the lost customers….

The is what IBM did with germany during the 1940s…

@desea by this point of fact being a CEO at all is a much more grave moral dilemma than the one you have outlined here.

@desea one side note i should mention is ignoring all of that, fascists are acting in a generally destructive and misguided fashion. The most that depriving people of sex hormones does is make them less suicidal. Fascists dont do very good things in a depressive stupor regardless but if they were already going to be suicidal either way nothing effectively good happens by robbing them of this reasource. On the contrary if you mess up even once in who you cut off resources from, thats blood on your hands.