Name: Richel R.

Flores MAEE 111-Student

Moral development is a very important construct for everyday decisions, especially

when it involves other people feelings and perception of what morality constitutes.
Moral development also plays a big role when it comes to dealing with ethical
dilemmas.

The Heinz dilemma is an interesting scenario to help understand one’s moral

development. In this dilemma, Heinz is a poor man with a wife who is dying of
cancer. Heinz learns there’s a cure for his wife’s cancer, but the cure is being sold
for ten times over its cost to manufacture. Since Heinz cannot afford this cure on his
own, he went and borrowed money from his acquaintances to help purchase the
drug, but only raised half the money he needed. Heinz even developed the drug at a
cheaper price but was turned down even with his wife dying. Heinz was desperate to
save the life of his wife and ultimately broke into the pharmacist’s establishment and
stole the drug.

As I interviewed and shared to the farmer, my co- teacher and about this Heinz
dilemma they have the same response, just like Heinz did they would also do the
same because according to them, they will do everything for their loved ones even
that actions can harm or imprison them. They have this principle that they don’t want
to have regret at the end. They don’t want to have “what if’s” in their lives. As long as
they can save the lives of their loved ones.

Also, in my opinion if I were in Heinz shoes, I would have done the same thing.
Heinz did everything in his power to save his wife the legal way but it is important to
note that legal doesn’t always equate to being right. Heinz did what he thought was
right, considering his circumstances and he deemed his wife’s life more important
than the consequences he would he did the right thing. But we also put in our mind
that in every action that we will do there is always a consequence. So, we must be
open and accept the consequences in exchange of our actions. I also believed that
the end doesn’t justify the means. So, if we do such actions even if the intention is
good we must prepare ourselves because people’s perspectives are different. We
cannot please everyone and that is human nature.