This is your life...

...are you who you want to be?

-Switchfoot

This statue is in front of an office building we shot in on Saturday.

I've been in some meetings for a pharmaceutical company. Most of the people involved seem to have a sense of and take satisfaction in the aspect of the help their products provide to people in saving and improving lives. But I can't help think about the internal moral conundrum of being in a situation where the more that people suffer unfortunate health problems, the better off the drug company and it's employees becomes. There's a tension there that must be a bit hard to live with sometimes. One of the big sales execs seemed to make no bones about it. He actually spoke excitedly about the great opportunities in "the breast cancer market." I was taken aback. But he was an exception. Most of the speakers were true believers in the noble nature of their profession. They had some great stories about the aleviation of great suffering. You have to give the company credit for that. And the fact that a tremendous amount of research, development, money, and government red tape goes into coming up with formulaes that may or may not work and even if they do, they get to profit from them for a limited number of years before they become generic and relatively worthless. All the same, the money these companies and their sales reps make is mind boggling.