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littlesheep
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Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:51 pm
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Heinz Steals the Drug
In Europe, a woman was near death from 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 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 only get together about $ 1,000 which is 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 from it." So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug-for his wife. Should the husband have done that?
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LSUGraduate2002
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yes he should have although he should leave at least some money for the drug instead of just stealing it outright.
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MrTrunks
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adults should not be asked this type of quesiton.
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MrTrunks
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Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:18 am
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| LSUGraduate2002 wrote: | | yes he should have although he should leave at least some money for the drug instead of just stealing it outright. |
Would that have made it a 'fair exchange'?
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Adam
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Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:06 am
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| littlesheep wrote: | Heinz Steals the Drug
In Europe, a woman was near death from 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 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 only get together about $ 1,000 which is 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 from it." So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug-for his wife. Should the husband have done that? |
Depends on what caused the cancer. If it in any way was caused by the woman, then it certainly was wrong for the man to steal the drugs. If this cancer was an innocently-attained cancer, then the drug wasn't stolen. If you discover something that can save lives, you owe it to the world to make it reasonably available. In this story, the druggist says in effect, "Your wife's life is worth $1800 profit." What a faggot. The man should have burned down the druggist's house after stealing the drugs.
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MrTrunks
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Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:53 am
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| Adam wrote: | | Depends on what caused the cancer. If it in any way was caused by the woman, then it certainly was wrong for the man to steal the drugs. If this cancer was an innocently-attained cancer, then the drug wasn't stolen. If you discover something that can save lives, you owe it to the world to make it reasonably available. In this story, the druggist says in effect, "Your wife's life is worth $1800 profit." What a faggot. The man should have burned down the druggist's house after stealing the drugs. |
Do you really think that anyone deserves to have cancer?
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Amadeus
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Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:59 am
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If they submit themselves to substances they KNOW will give them cancer over and over again, i.e. cigarettes, or suntan beds.. then possibly.
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lsubabiedee
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duh...if someone u loved was dying, wouldnt u do whatever u could to save them....shit...i'd do anything for someone i loved...
plus, i believe that the gift of life is worth doing anything for...so....
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Ichiban
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Hillarious.
Viewing it from the perspective of a husband who married for love, and not lust, money, or any of the other idiotic reasons people latch on these days, I would say that I wouldn't change a thing about what he did. Love, especially true love, breaks a lot of boundaries.
As far as the question goes.. is it right? wrong? *laugh* moral discussions and TigerU.com hardly mix.
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Adam
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Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:11 am
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| MrTrunks wrote: | | Adam wrote: | | Depends on what caused the cancer. If it in any way was caused by the woman, then it certainly was wrong for the man to steal the drugs. If this cancer was an innocently-attained cancer, then the drug wasn't stolen. If you discover something that can save lives, you owe it to the world to make it reasonably available. In this story, the druggist says in effect, "Your wife's life is worth $1800 profit." What a faggot. The man should have burned down the druggist's house after stealing the drugs. |
Do you really think that anyone deserves to have cancer? |
Certainly not. Ok, Hitler deserved cancer--wish he'd have gotten some. But if you give yourself cancer, you certainly aren't entitled to free medicine.
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Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:20 am
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Well we all have to abide by laws. While i understand what he did. And yes the intentions of his heart were good'however, his actions were wrong. Would i do the same as him though? HELL YES!
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Norris
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Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:23 pm
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The guy did the right thing. The druggist did the wrong thing. And plenty of people deserve cancer, Hitler being one of them. It could have saved a lot of lives.
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lsugroovychlck
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Well if the woman was indeed a smoker then he was wrong by breaking into the man's store. I mean the surgeon general doesn't put that little disclaimer about getting cancer on the cigarette boxes for his health. When you look at it either way stealing the man's money was wrong but in the eyes of the people it's looked a little less down upon if she had gotten cancer by chance and not because she inflicted it upon herself.
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littlesheep
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I will give you description of your moral judgments according to your answers here...... did u understand me, he he 
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