The Set Up:
You and your new wife (or husband if you are of the female persuasion) have just returned from a church mission trip to Ooga-Booga, a small tribal country on another continent.
A few days home your wife develops a high fever and all sorts of other bad symptoms. Upon visiting the doctor it is discovered she has been bitten by the rare and deadly Nik-Tik Fly. There is only one cure and it must be administered within the next 48 hours or it will be too late. The doctor writes the prescription and off to the druggist you go.
The apothacary is very sympathetic to your situation but the cure is quite costly and the mission trip really diminished your financial resources. You can not afford the medicine. Begging does not help, nor does pleading or your insurance carrier or even the government.
You make the easy choice, you decide to give up some of your freedom (jail time) so your new bride may live.
However...
You break into the druggist's store easily enough and find the last remaining dose of the medicine on the shelf with a sticky note attached that reads, "For Delivery to Agatha Collier Immediately. Paid in Full."
Agatha Collier is a kindly great-grandmother of 75 years who also went on the trip and apparently was also stricken ill by the same insect's bite.
One dose left. It is paid for by some one else who needs it. Agatha is elderly, your wife is young and you two have no children yet. Less than 24 hours remain till the death of your darling wife.
Do you leave the medicine and allow your young wife to expire but save the rightful owner of the mediciine?
Do you steal the medicine, lose your freedom and save your wife but condemn another to sure death?
You and your new wife (or husband if you are of the female persuasion) have just returned from a church mission trip to Ooga-Booga, a small tribal country on another continent.
A few days home your wife develops a high fever and all sorts of other bad symptoms. Upon visiting the doctor it is discovered she has been bitten by the rare and deadly Nik-Tik Fly. There is only one cure and it must be administered within the next 48 hours or it will be too late. The doctor writes the prescription and off to the druggist you go.
The apothacary is very sympathetic to your situation but the cure is quite costly and the mission trip really diminished your financial resources. You can not afford the medicine. Begging does not help, nor does pleading or your insurance carrier or even the government.
You make the easy choice, you decide to give up some of your freedom (jail time) so your new bride may live.
However...
You break into the druggist's store easily enough and find the last remaining dose of the medicine on the shelf with a sticky note attached that reads, "For Delivery to Agatha Collier Immediately. Paid in Full."
Agatha Collier is a kindly great-grandmother of 75 years who also went on the trip and apparently was also stricken ill by the same insect's bite.
One dose left. It is paid for by some one else who needs it. Agatha is elderly, your wife is young and you two have no children yet. Less than 24 hours remain till the death of your darling wife.
Do you leave the medicine and allow your young wife to expire but save the rightful owner of the mediciine?
Do you steal the medicine, lose your freedom and save your wife but condemn another to sure death?