Druggist And Heinz Ethical Issues

In the LP5 assessment scenario, there are a couple of issues. The first issue is the obvious fact that Heinz acted unethically and broke into the drug store to steal the drug for his wife. The other issue that I see is that the druggist seemed to have refused to allow Heinz to purchase the drug for a lower price or pay for the drug over time, simply because he discovered it and wanted to increase his profit. It appears to me, to be unethical for the druggist to charge an unreasonable amount for a medication that could save several people, including Heinz’s wife, in order to feed his greed. Both the druggist and Heinz acted unethically in this scenario. It was not right for the husband to break into the drug store and steal; however, it was not right for the druggist to over-charge for the …show more content…
Culture, morals, and values vary from person to person. One individual may not have stolen the drug, whereas, another may have stolen it. In my opinion, each individual’s response to this situation reflects upon their own beliefs and what they consider to be right or wrong. My culture, morals and values differ from what I believe that Heinz had to do. I do not believe in stealing due to my Christian beliefs; therefore, I believe that God’s will would prevail in a situation such as this one. This would more or less put me at stage four. I would not steal because it was the illegal and the wrong thing to do. In this scenario, I believe that Heinz did the only thing that he could see left to do. Morally he was doing what he felt needed to be done to save his wife after exhausting all other options. He started off in the preconventional level and the conventional level, where