Name: YVAN T.

MALLARI Course Code: ETHICS 203

Course, Year and section: BSBA 1A Date finished: 05 / 24 / 2022

Heinz Dilemma

A woman was near death from cancer. One drug might save her, a form of radium that a druggist in the
same town had recently discovered. The druggist was charging $2,000.00, ten times what the drug cost
him to make. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he
could only get together about 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." The husband got desperate and
broke into the man's store to steal the drug for his wife.

Should the husband have done that? .... Why do you think so?

In this situation, it is really hard to choose between saving the life of his wife and breaking the
law. Heinz who is in the post-conventional stage of moral development who’s the proponent of
Kolhberg, so he believed that laws are basically social contracts that should not be rigid in the
face of certain areas such as saving a life while laws might exist for the greater good there are
times that they will still work against the interest of certain individuals saving a life is definitely
more important than breaking the law that Heinz did by stealing the drugs so that he can save his
wife. Heinz steals the drug because he’s a good husband and it’s expected of him to do so by his
wife. Heinz is a loving husband to his wife, he does everything to save his wife’s life, he did that
because there is a way how to save the life of his wife but sadly, the money was the issue and the
doctor. Therefore, Heinz was triggered by his moral post-conventional to do that kind of manner
to save his wife’s life he doesn’t care what the next lead but, in his mind, and heart the
importance is saving the life of his wife.