Moral Education?

You're a worker whose income only just meets expenses when your spouse falls seriously ill. Prescriptions are not covered by your insurance and the only drug that will meet the case is far beyond your means. As luck would have it, a friend who works in the local drugstores leaves a set of keys at your house; they won't be missed for a while and it would be easy for you to make a surreptitious visit after hours. You know the layout and the pharmacology well enough to be sure you get the right stuff, quickly enough to run no risk of being caught. You have reason to think your spouse will die without the drug. What should you do?

I would give the keys back to my friend and either apply for government assistance to help pay for the medical and prescription costs, or take a second mortgage out on my house. There are also many charities that help people in this type of situation.

Your scenario does not justify committing a crime. There are many, many other means to obtain the drugs needed.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with morality. You are posing a nearly impossible and very improbable scenario. The drug in this case woulkd be provided by some agency and no pharmacist would risk being fired, fined and perhaps going to prison for allowing someone else to wander the shelves of a drug store at ease like that. It would not be a mattre of what one would do, it is a matter of what one can do.

Get the freaking medicine for your loved one ! No time to think about consequences !

ha ha I recognize this one...

Borrow $800 somewhere and take out a temporary policy with Rx coverage.


...then rob the pharmacy to pay the loan back.

There is some organization out there that can help you get that drug legally. You are talking about breaking and entering and stealing. What good would this person be doing their spouse if they are locked up in jail??