Activity: Using Wise Judgment

A woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. The doctors figured out that there was one drug that might save her. It was a special form of radium that was recently discovered by one of the chemists in town. The drug was expensive to make, but the chemist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to make. He spent P4000 pesos, and he does not want to lower the price because he spent a lot of money making the drug. The sick woman’s husband went to everyone he knew to borrow money and tried every legal means, but he could only get together P1500. He told the druggist that his wife was dying, and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist insists that he has to make money out of it.

The husband now thinks that the only way to get that drug and save the life of his wife is to steal it. Would he do it or not?

Find out what he should do by answering the following:

1.What are the conflicting values involved? Use the table below to answer

Option 1	VS	Option 2
Value 1	VS	Value 2

Name at least 3 values at stake in his choices.

2.See reality clearly.
-What are the important pieces of information one must consider in this case?
-What are the risks involved?
-What is the good end that must be pursued in relation to (1)?

3.Figure out the good.
-What could be other possible means available to achieve the good end?
-What are possible consequences, alternatives? What about long term consequences?
-Evaluate the means based on conditions of prudential judgment.
-Will the action be taken the only means available? Will it cost the least possible harm?
-Will the means not compromise the good end being sought?