John Q & Deontology

John Quincy Archibald has a son named Michael who collapsed while
playing baseball. They just found out that Michael has a heart failure, and he
needs a donor as soon as possible. They have insurance but this can’t cover
his son’s heart transplant. They have done anything but they still can’t afford
the treatment and the hospital had warn them to discharge and let his son die
because they can’t give any downpayment inorder for his son to get the
treatment. Her wife warned John to do anything and even questioned his faith.
John takes the emergency room hostage, he did it so that the name of his son
will be put on the priority list to get a heart transplant.
The main message that I understand in the movie is that the love of a
parent is unconditional. They can do everything just to save their child’s life.
The part of the movie that signifies the decision making in deciding over life
and death is the part where the dad wants to sacrifice his life to give his son a
heart. Even if there are a lot of problems in a heart transplant such as
compatibility, his dad insisted on giving his heart to his son by insisting on
taking his own life.
The movie depicts this categorical imperative because of the part of the movie
where the son is not listed because they do not have the money to pay. Which
in the imperative says act in such as way that you treat humanity, wether in
your own person or in the person of any other. This means that if someone
need helps treat them like it's humanity not by money but treat them as a
human being that needs help. And this is where the last part comes in where
you never treat them because it is their desired result, but treat them as same
time as an end, meaning that if you treat them it's final there no need for
future treatment.