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One of the challenges of being an ethical person is recognizing ethical dilemmas. Most dilemmas involve more than one issue. A famous dilemma is “The Heinz Dilemma” developed by Lawrence Kohlberg. In Europe a woman was near death from a particular kind of cancer. There was one drug that doctor thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging 10 times what the drug cost him to make. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman’s husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about $1,000, half of the drug’s cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said, “No, I discovered the drug and I am going to make money from it.” So Heinz, now desperate, began to think about breaking into the man’s store to steal the drug for his wife. Please record your own honest answers to the following questions: (1) What are the issues? (2) Should Heinz steal the drug? (3) What ethical could be used to justify Heinz’s action? This ethics survey is widely used to assess a person's stage of ethical reasoning. There are no right or wrong answers. I will release the rubrics on the following Monday and you can try to assess your own ethical reasoning stage.