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    This document discusses decision making and recaps a moral dilemma involving a husband named Heinz whose wife is dying of cancer. Heinz seeks an expensive drug that a druggist has discovered and charges ten times what it costs to make. Heinz can only raise half the cost and asks the druggist to lower the price or allow him to pay later, but the druggist refuses. Desperate to save his wife's life, Heinz considers stealing the drug. The document notes that groups should focus on the process of making a decision in this dilemma rather than just the decision itself. It suggests documenting the group's decision making process and considering various factors and order in ethical decision making. The next class will involve submitting a group slide

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    This document discusses decision making and recaps a moral dilemma involving a husband named Heinz whose wife is dying of cancer. Heinz seeks an expensive drug that a druggist has discovered and charges ten times what it costs to make. Heinz can only raise half the cost and asks the druggist to lower the price or allow him to pay later, but the druggist refuses. Desperate to save his wife's life, Heinz considers stealing the drug. The document notes that groups should focus on the process of making a decision in this dilemma rather than just the decision itself. It suggests documenting the group's decision making process and considering various factors and order in ethical decision making. The next class will involve submitting a group slide

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    Decision Making

    25 June 2013

    Recap
    Moral dilemmas help us to:
    Clarify our own values, moral positions Clarify our moral reasoning processes See where theoretical models dont work so well See a certain convergence between reasoning and theory

    Consider how we normally respond to dilemmas (moral or otherwise)


    Emotive, rational or both? Is it possible to analyse dilemmas fully?

    Heinzs Problem
    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, Lawrence Essays on Moral Development, Vol. I: The Philosophy of Moral Development. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1981.

    What should Heinz do?


    Concentrate on the PROCESS of making the decision. Might be useful to appoint a member of the group to document the processes involved in coming up with a decision.

    Towards the process


    Considerations Order How we make decisions

    What else?

    Next class
    Submit your groups ethical decision making slide(s) to me by 10pm, Wednesday 26 June. Email is best. goh.stan@gmail.com Remember to include the names of those in your groups.

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