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You're putting the word greedy in quotes, but what you're saying is exactly correct. People will pay anything to save their own life. If the market is allowed to react to that in an unrestricted manner, that quickly raises the wealth floor on being able to save your own life, which is, patently, morally incorrect in cases where the profit margin is high. It is antithetical to civilization. The fact that people who disagree with that high-level concept in the broad sense are not vanishingly rare is a desperate societal emergency.