"Heinz Steals the Drug
In Europe, 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? (Kohlberg, 1963)."
Leave your comment about what you believe should have happened and why.
i think that was ok to steal the drug for heinz wife beause even though it may not have worked it still had a 50% chance that it Would.
ReplyDeleteAlso he had raised $1000 and if he broke in he may not have had to go to jail because the founder of the drug had raised the prise 10%.
and heinz may just get a fine or something else instead of jail.
H.O'B
i think Heinze should have stolen the medicene because he loved his wife and anything is worth a try. if he didnt take the medicene his wife would have sertinly died but it was worth a go if it means she might get better and continue to live.
ReplyDeleteI cant really decide i agree with maddy but also i think that by stealing the medicine Heinz was breaking the law, but it was for a good reason. it was a life and death situation so i guess it was ok... i have no idea, help me?
ReplyDeleteMight,it's a very powerful word meaning it could or it could not. Heinze MIGHT have let his wife die or he MIGHT of tried to have a go and isn't that what your parents teach you to do? Say that they're proud of you because you had a go and tried your hardest. I think heinze should of stole the medicene for three reasons 1 because just because the drug MIGHT help her doesn't mean he shouldn't have a go like i wrote before.2 is because he loves that his wife which is why he married her. Imagine if your mum got sick, would you go to the highest lengths to cure her? Finally 3 it was between a life or death situation and I think that preety much says it. Thats why i think that Heinze should have stolen the medicene. A.T
ReplyDeletei believe that heinz should not have stolen the drug, because the doctors said it MIGHT save the wife not it WILL save her. heinz will be caught anyway because the druggest will no it was heinz. it is only one life and in some point in life your going to die. his wife had cancer and was most likely going to die. i would also like to state that the druggest worked hard to create that drug and would want a reward, i no that $2000 is alot and that the druggest should not price it that high but he did work hard for that drug and for heinz to just brake in and steal it, its just not on! heinz should not have stolen the medicine!
ReplyDeleteHeinze should steal the drug to give it a try because its a life or death matter, so if he didn't depending on weather it worked, if it worked you'd feel happy you saved a life but if it didn't work she will die and you will go to jail for theft but its worth a shot to save someone you love even if the penalty is high. So thats why i reckon he should steal it
ReplyDeletei dont think heinz should of stolen the drug because if he saved his wife she still would of lived the rest of her life going through pain i don't think she would of wanted to go through that. And also if heinz had of stolen the drug he could be putting the the finder of the drug in danger because he might of needed that money to be able to survive maybe that was his money for his survival and food so i agree with all the people that say no he shouldn't of stolen the drug.
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I think Heinz should steal the drug because it m ay save his wife.
ReplyDeleteIt is true every one will die but no one deserves to have a short life. Heinz loves his wife and will do anything to save her.
JOK
I believe it was ok to steal it because the wife might be able to survive and it was robbery from the drug seller because he was selling it for ten times the ammount of what it was worth. if hienz paid $1000 the drug seller still would have made a huge profit. the drug seller is a greedy man who just wants money and cares about no-one else. hienz did the right thing to save his wife.
ReplyDeleteI believe heinz should have stolen the drug, because he put all the effort into raising money and couldn't get it for his wife. Without the drug she would have died. But if she got it there was a chance she might live.
ReplyDeleteI believe that heinz was right to steal the drugs because it was a life or deaf situation and it MIGHT cure his wife so if he had paid the 2 thousand and it didn't cure her then why pay that much for the druggs. The druggist is at fault if the man didn't steal it or pay for it and the wife died.
ReplyDeleteI believe that Heinz should not have stolen the drug because all though might save his wifes life there is a possibility that it will not save her life and she would die anyway. Also his wife was suffering from cancer and sooner or later she would die and even if the drug did save her life Heinz would be fined or put in to jail because he has made a wrong choice.
ReplyDeleteI also think that he should have stollen the drug because even though they weren't sure if it would help Heinz's wife she still had a chance!!
ReplyDeleteI also think that at the beginning the shop keeper could of said yes and taken the $1000 off Heinz so that he could have the drug to hopefully save his wife, and then eventually pay back the other $1000 to the shop keeper.
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ReplyDeleteoh and runescape is me tom i just used my google account and its a awesome name for a google acoont thanks mr wright if i caused any confusion
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ReplyDeleteI think Heinz should have stolen the drug, because there is a chance that it would work and if he loved his wife that much to risk his life to save her's, I don't think he would have minded if he went to jail because his wife would be better.
ReplyDeletethere are plenty of ways to justify this, why and why not. Well I know it sounds terrible but she was going to die soon anyway. so what was the point in going to all that trouble and putting a heap of stress on the store owner, when she was going to die anyway. When that money might have been extremely important to that store owner. Yes it was wrong, but i can believe why it why right aswell to have stolen it, he was married to her and in traditional wedding vowels it states ."Within sickness or health, the two partners may not in any case be without each other". To helpo each other when in need.
ReplyDeleteI think that he should not have stolen the drug because there is only a 50% chance that it will save her.Also heinz would be fined for theft if he stoll it even if it did save her life.
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I think Heinz made the right decision to break in, because it proves how much he loves his wife. Even though he would get in trouble for it, it was worth a try. If his wife had died he wouldn't feel so guilty, because he was brave enough at having a go at saving her life. If his wife did survive, she would love her husband and be so thankful to know that she has a person like Heinz in her life to look after her.
ReplyDeleteI dont believe that heinz should have stolen the medicen to help his wife.after all he safed up to 1000 dallars to get this medicen and do you really think that heinz's wife would of liked to get medicen thats was stolen.and the medicen would might safe her.
ReplyDeleteSome really insightful comments here, justifying both points of view. Decisions are hard when there is no clear "right" solution. This is where your inbuilt moral code comes into play.
ReplyDeleteyes he should of it was the druggists own fault
ReplyDeletefor charging so much and the mans wife was dying
if you cant lower your price just that little bit for 1 dying human being then it serves you right.
ps. im coming to school today
nice name tom, anyway i think most of us guessed. But the way theres going to be so many oops's this week. there wernt that many people who commented on heinz
ReplyDeletei would say that heinz should not have broken int to the store, he was breaking the law by breaking in, his wife had a rare case of cancer, and there was only one drug to save her, so my opinion was that heinz shouldn't have stolen the drug.
ReplyDeleteheinz shouldn't have broken into the store because he broke the law, he didn't have enough money to buy the drug he did it because he loved her.
ReplyDeletehe should not have stolen the medican becuse it could have killed her eny way said jordo
ReplyDeleteit really depends, we dont know if the drug works, it only said
ReplyDelete"there was one drug that might save her"
so i really don't know, it kind of confuses me!!
I believe Heinz is a wierd name....... I think that stealing the medicine was just and that the supplier of it was too greedy. I hope he didn't hurt himself when he got the medicine. Im guessing his wifes name's is arkward.
ReplyDeleteSincerly yours,justjks.