Case Study: ELEMENTS OF MORALITY

General Instructions:
a. Read carefully the case below, and identify the different situations whether it is
moral or immoral.
b. Tell also what elements of morality is present or can be identified with the actions
or decisions of the person involved.
 
In America a woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug
that the doctor thought might save her. It was in 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 went to
everyone he knew and barrow some money, but he could only provide half of the price.
So, he told the druggist that his wife is dying and asked him to sell the drug in a lower
price or let him pay later. But the druggist said, ‘no I discovered the drug and I’m going
to make money out of it’. So, the husband becomes desperate and broke into man’s
store to steal the drug for his wife. Should the husband have done that?
 

1. The husband was correct in stealing the drug because he was a good man for
wanting to save her and that his intentions were good that of saving the life of
someone’s he loves.

Answer: ________________
 

2. The husband should steal for his wife because he might return the favor some
day.

Answer: ________________
 

3. The wife’s life to live is a moral right that must be protected and that it is his
husband’s duty to save his wife.

Answer: ________________
 

4. The husband has a good motive of saving the life of his wife, however, the
authority cannot simply ignore wrong doings.
Answer: ________________
 

5. The husband should not steal it for it is against the law and that it’s bad to steal.
Since stealing punished the wrong doers.

Answer: ________________
 

6. Saving the life of the wife of the husband is the most important thing to do over
any other properties.

Answer: ________________