Overview
Write a one page response in which you will take both sides of the issue: the husband's act was justified, and the husband's act was not justified. Address each side in a separate paragraph in which you will state a position, provide the main reason for it, and explain that reason. Your paper will be graded for its content, clarity and grammar.
In this assignment, we will use Lawrence Kohlberg's version of Heinz's Dilemma.
In Europe, a woman was near death from a very bad disease, 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 [pharmacist] 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 get together only about $1,000, which was 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 of it." Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug for his wife.