Administer the Kohlberg Moral Dilemma below to a friend or family member
Administer the Kohlberg Moral Dilemma below to a friend or family member. Ask them to read or read the dilemma to them. Record their responses to the questions below. After they are finished, develop a paragraph assessment identifying what stage of moral develop you believe them to be in and list your justification for your assessment of that stage
In Europe, a woman was near death from cancer. One drug might save her, a form of
radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The druggist was
charging $2,000, ten times what the drug cost him to make. The sick woman’s
husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get
together about half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and
asked him to sell it cheaper or let him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the
druggist said, “No.” The husband got desperate and broke into the man’s store to
steal the drug for his wife. Should the husband have done that? Why?
1. Should Heinz steal the drug? Why or why not?
2. If Heinz doesn’t love his wife, should he steal the drug for her? Why or why
not?
3. Suppose the person dying is not his wife but a stranger. Should Heinz steal the
drug for a stranger? Why or why not?
4. It is against the law for Heinz to steal? Does that make it morally wrong? Why
or why not?
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