“Now, you need to do something. Do you hear me? Do something.” In the movie John Q., this was the statement that pushed John Quincy Archibald to take drastic measures to get the heart transplant that his son desperately needed. This demanding statement from his wife, Denise Archibald, managed to take him out of his kind nature and forced him to do something that was out of his character. The question is—did he do the right thing? Was it really right for him to take the people in the emergency room of Hope Memorial Hospital hostage, to force the director of the hospital to put his son’s name on the organ recipient list? Well, it could be wrong, and it could be right. It depends on what perspective you use.
For me, I choose the utilitarian perspective
For me, I choose the utilitarian perspective