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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 1905156" data-attributes="member: 13624">Sure they are free to not buy.  As others have pointed out, you proved it yourself: you did a little comparison shopping and found another pharmacy.  Good for you!  Competition is what will ultimately drive prices down.To answer your question more directly: ownership gives them the right.  The pills in their inventory belong to them; they're free to do whatever they want with them.  Keep them, give them away, sell them, or throw them in a bonfire around which they dance a merry jig, it's up to them.With the right to sell comes the right to determine the conditions of the sale.  Whether $1 or $1 million, they have the right to decide the terms under which they will sell.  You have the same right as regards your cash: you have the right to determine under what conditions you'll part with it.  You can choose whether you give $10 in exchange for one pill, or whether you will only part with your $10 for fifty pills.When you, the buyer, and they, the sellers, come to a mutual agreement of terms, a trade forms.  You've both decided that the utility of what the other guy has is more valuable to you than the utility of what you give up.  If you can't find terms that leave you better off, you have the right to not part with your cash, because it's your property.  Similarly, if they don't think that what you offer is more valuable to them than their pills, they don't have to sell to you.What gives those rights?  The right of property ownership.  You seem to be saying that you need their stuff, and they have the ability to provide it, so you have a right to their property.  I've heard that idea before, and it's a very, very bad one.  You have absolutely no right to somebody else's stuff, and especially not to have it delivered to you at a convenient forum.  If you want somebody else's stuff, go work out a deal with him on mutually-agreeable terms; don't get a case of the hips and suggest that he should be forced (and that's all government is: force) to the terms that you want.</blockquote>

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