Moral Dilemma #2

[Cru]

A druggist creates a drug for a rare and specific disease. It costs him $200 to make the drug. The druggist charges $2000 to purchase it. Your wife/husband is diagnosed with said disease. You cannot afford the $2000. You ask around to borrow the money, and exhaust every possible way to try and earn the $2000 needed but you can not. You ask the druggist to sell it to you for less and he says "no I invented the drug and I am going to charge what I want for it? What do you do?

 

[shibumiseeker]

Dust off the philosophy 101 book, did you?

 

[Cru]

Dust off the philosophy 101 book, did you?

nah, we were discussing it in Ed. Psych. I wanted to know what people on INGO would reply. It was a heated discussion in class yesterday.

 

[samot]

A druggist creates a drug for a rare and specific disease. It costs him $200 to make the drug. The druggist charges $2000 to purchase it. Your wife/husband is diagnosed with said disease. You cannot afford the $2000. You ask around to borrow the money, and exhaust every possible way to try and earn the $2000 needed but you can not. You ask the druggist to sell it to you for less and he says "no I invented the drug and I am going to charge what I want for it? What do you do?

Find another Drug

 

[sj kahr k40]

Rob him and save your wife/husband/significant other and suffer the consequences

 

[shibumiseeker]

nah, we were discussing it in Ed. Psych. I wanted to know what people on INGO would reply. It was a heated discussion in class yesterday.

Those questions are always good for heated discussions in class. In one of the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde he has Thursday (the protagonist) running through a series of moral dilemmas whilst trapped in a book of moral dilemmas.

Find another Drug

I want a new drug. One that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car or make me feel three feet thick.

 

[Cru]

Find another Drug

There is no other drug. If she doesn't get this specific drug she dies.

 

[Cru]

Those questions are always good for heated discussions in class. In one of the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde he has Thursday (the protagonist) running through a series of moral dilemmas whilst trapped in a book of moral dilemmas.



I want a new drug. One that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car or make me feel three feet thick.

I will look it up!

 

[shibumiseeker]

I will look it up!

I bet it will make a great song lyric!

 

[mrjarrell]

I sell 2K worth of my stuff and buy the drug. Or I take out a loan. There are always options. I will not steal it, for I am not a thief. If there's just no way at all to raise funds I would explain the circumstances and try to work out something with the man.

 

[IndyMonkey]

Smoke some weed and ponder the situation, is what I would do.

 

[jd4320t]

Risk your life to get it but no one else's.

 

[OneBadV8]

Yep, what mrjarrel said.

It's capitalism and he gets rewarded for his discovery.

 

[Rookie]

Have you ever seen the movie John Q?

 

[ammoguy62]

I would try to barter with him first. Then, if that doesn't work, take it by force. That is if said disease was deadly and there would be no future option to purchase the drug. Family first. Especially since he's a d-bag.

 

[jd4320t]

I would try to barter with him first. Then, if that doesn't work, take it by force. That is if said disease was deadly and there would be no future option to purchase the drug. Family first. Especially since he's a d-bag.

Why is he a d-bag?

 

[sig-sweet]

I would work it out in trade or services rendered for the drug. When my debt was paid in full I would shove every pill he had up his keester one by one. Plug the hole with C4 and a 5 ft fuse , light the fuse and tell him to have a good life, and oh yes, I have the cure for what's coming and it will only cost you $150,000.00

 

[remymartin]

CALL OBAMA, GET IT FO' FREE. sorry

 

[PatriotPride]

There's always male prostitution. Just sayin'

I should put an ad in the Classifieds.

 

[Eddie]

Since this is only a hypothetical sitiuation:

Calmly and in an even tone of voice offer not to kill him for $2,000.