Heinz Moral Dilemma

[adam]

1.)The doctor is just making a business decision based on a product he discovered and that he manufactures. So him being an ass with the cost of it really doesn't justify comitting a crime. It would be admirable to know that Heinz would be willing to go to jail for his wife. But if was to get caught, no sympathy for him.

2.) If he doesn't love his wife, I doubt he would have went through all of the trouble trying to save her. It sounds like he has put a lot of effort into this thus far.

3.) No. Heinz doesn't have a conenction to the stranger...thus why should he risk jailtime over someone he hardly knows?

4.) The pet falls under the same category as number one (no I'm not lowering the wife to the level of a pet). But if Heinz loves his pet, he can try and be admired by some for doing so. But no slack for him when he gets killed or thrown in jail.

5.) That's a doctors job. If a doctor can't do it, than it's just not in the cards.
Somethings you just have to leave to nature.

6.) Well of course it's against the law, that's the whole dilemma. I don't think that it makes it morally wrong more so than it makes it risky. If Heinz wants to risk jail-time or perhaps worse to save his wife's life than that's his business.

7.) Yeah. The law is there for a reason, don't break it if you don't have to.

[adam]

But no slack for him when he gets killed or thrown in jail.

Why would someone be killed for violating laws against theft?

Different situation - he runs into the pharmacist while breaking into the store, who happens to be armed, and gets shot. He's not saying that he'd get executed by the authorities for it.

^^^^ That's what I was getting at