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	Moral dilemmas

liotropi

8-8-2007 1:25 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/40d72486-36b8-41ba-bf98-494307791399/ECDB78A5-1F7F-4223-BFCD-FB22504363B3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://faculty.plts.edu/gpence/html/kohlberg.htm" href="http://faculty.plts.edu/gpence/html/kohlberg.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">faculty.plts.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://faculty.plts.edu/gpence/html/kohlberg.htm"><FONT face="Times New Roman">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? (Kohlberg, 1963, p. 19)</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://faculty.plts.edu/gpence/html/kohlberg.htm">Kohlberg is not really interested in
        whether the subject says "yes" or "no" to this
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