Moral Devlopment

[Iris]

A large part of moral development in psychology is based off Kohlberg's studies, in which he gave participants moral dilemmas and based his ideas off the results. One of the most famous dilemmas is this:

"A woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to make. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for a small dose of the drug.

The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about $ 1,000 which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said: "No, I discovered the drug and I'm going to make money from it." So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug-for his wife. Should the husband have done that?"

This has nothing to do with whether he should have or shouldn't have, rather your reasoning why. So what do you think?

[Can'tHelpIt]

Thats the problem with society we are animals and start to make others into animals
1. The druggist for valuing money over a human life and it was just 1'000 dollars
2. He then turned the husband into an animal for forcing to go to the extent of stealing

[Kaius]

I think he had the right to, at the end of the day the pharmacist was wrong in hiking up the price so much pretty much no one could afford it, his interest was not the well being of his clients but his own wealth.

Heinz didn't do it maliciously, he did it to save the life of another person and that person was an important role in his life. Nevertheless it could also be seen that Heinz was also acting selfishly to save the life of the wife because it wasn't just what she wanted but what he did as well which could lead us to believe most if not every choice in life however selfless it looks could possibly have selfish consequences.

Thats just what i believe personally. Seems a bit confusing but yeah in short: Pharmacist is wrong, Heinz did the right thing.

[Thanatos]

I love this dilemma. We had a morality class in my school that we did all sorts of dilemmas and situations and evaluating the action. I feel that Heinz was perfectly in the right here. The law is nice, but sometimes there are extraordinary circumstances. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do.