For one thing, pharmaceutical companies have been taking advantage of the sick for far too long. There are more cases just like this one happening all the time. If you look at the prices of prescription …show more content…
One of Kant 's major questions regarding human ethics is “does my action respect the goals of human beings rather than merely using them for my own purposes?” (csus.edu) The short answer to that question is, no. Shkreli’s actions of raising Daraprim from $13.50 a pill to $750 a pill does not respect the goals of mankind. What he is doing doesn 't benefit, or improve mankind. The only people benefiting from this price gouging are the people of Turing Pharmaceuticals. The rest of America is suffering, even though only a small number of people actually use this medication; it is setting a precedent throughout the rest of the nation that behavior like this is being tolerated. What he is doing is purely for his own purpose and not for anyone else 's. According to Kant, if the answer to the question aforementioned is “no”, then the person should not carry about the action in