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Anonymous asked in Family & RelationshipsMarriage & Divorce · 1 decade ago

should the spouse steal the drug to save the other?

"In the USA, a patient was near death from cancer. One drug might be a life saver, a rare form of X that a manufacturer had created and that a druggust in the same town had for sale. The druggist was charging $2000, or ten times what the drug cost to make. The patient's spouse went to everyone to borrow the money, but could only get together about half of what it cost. The spouse told the druggist of the patient and asked the druggist to sell it cheaper or set up a schedule of payments to pay the rest later. The druggist said "no". The spouse got desperate and broke into the store to steal the drug. Should the spouse have done that to save the other?"

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Survival and the protection of our loved ones being strong emotions...

    Anything is possible.

    i'm not sure what i would do in the same situration...

  • 1 decade ago

    I'vee been asked this question a 100 times.

    My answer is yes.

    Reason: If the manufacturer is immoral enough to charge 10x more and not cut the spouse a break to save the other spouses life, then the immorality is just to steal it. The manufacturer is stealing from consumers.

    However, 2 wrongs do not make a right.

    Backup for me claim.

    Would you sit around and watch your spouse die when the cure is easily accessible? No! I know I wouldn't. If caught would you go to jail, to save your spouse? I know I would.

    Would you be able to live with yourself after your spouse died knowing you were the one person who had the opportunity to save his/her life and failed? I know I wouldn't.

    I would do anything possible to save my husband. ANYTHING.

    I'm curious to hear the answers in M&D, I hope everyone would do this for their spouse, If not, You haven't experienced what true love and devotion is.

    Take Care

  • 1 decade ago

    He is lucky he didn't put a gun to the druggist head and make him hand it over.

    Stealing might be stealing but if you can save someone and if you chose not to for whatever reason....guess what murder is murder....and morally that druggist was a murderer even it wasn't in the legal sense!

  • Sue B
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    For my kids, I'd do anything it took. If I had ever had a spouse who was very dear to me, I"d of stolen too.

    IF the person got caught for doing this, I'd be knocking on the President of the USA door, telling of my story. I bet you'd get help then and possibly out of trouble.

    CONTACT the company who makes the drug. The pharmacist has to pay for his supplies, and some pharmaceutical companies give free or lesser prices.

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  • 1 decade ago

    i don't condone stealing, but im sorry if it is to save your spouse life and that druggist is just trying to make mass money on that drug and doesn't care about human beings life just money, then they had to do what they had to do, i am sick of people just caring about money and not about people, but like i said in almost any other way i don't believe in stealing.

  • 5 years ago

    Tell your husband you are sorry, but you are not going to live with this person. Period. End of story. Sometimes you have to make decisions for the long haul. What will help your marriage? What will hurt your marriage? Because of your history with addicted relatives, this would probably be a situation you would eventually run from.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    the point is did the patient live i hope so else it would all have been in vain but yes a gallent

    spouse they were as for the druggest he should not consider himself human

    keep us posted on the out come

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  • 1 decade ago

    Yes

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    This sounds like a question in my first year psychology textbook. Can't believe I still remember this question. I think it was measuring the various levels of cognitive processes' of individuals of varying age. Aka: what you should be cognitively mature enough to answer by age x.

    So, technically I cannot answer because my answer would be biased based on my knowledge.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes.

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