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Re: Don Quixote puts away his lance (was Re: McDonalds set
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 27 Sep 1999 19:29:27 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Miller writes:
> Yes, it's a classic Kohlberg dilemma. [1] I think you can make a good
> argument for _either_ response being the high moral ground, depending on
> your framework of morality.
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> 1. In Europe, a woman was near death from a very unusual kind of cancer. [2]
> The doctors thought that one drug -- a form of radium discovered by a
> druggist in the same town -- might save her life. The druggist paid $400
> for the radium and charged $4,000 for a small dose of the drug. Heinz,
> the sick woman's husband, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money
> and tried every legal means, but he could only raise $2000, half of the
> drug's selling price. Heinz pleaded with the druggist, explaining to him
> that his wife was dying. He presented several options to the druggist:
> sell the drug to Heinz at a cheaper price, let Heinz pay for the drug in
> installments or let Heinz pay for it at a later date. But the druggist
> said, "No, I discovered the drug and I¼m going to make money from it."
> Heinz is now considering breaking into the drug store and stealing for
> his wife.
Mayhap I'm confused. How is this a moral dilema?
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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