Mitzva+Ha-Ba'a+B'Aveira

The Heinz Dilemma (by Lawrence Kohlberg):

//In Europe, a woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors 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 ten 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 which is half of what it 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'm going to make money from it." So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug-for his wife. Should the husband have done that?//

Please write 2-3 paragraphs (and submit as a googledoc) responding to the following questions:

1) Should Heinz have stolen the drug? Why or why not? Please explain all aspects of your reasoning. 2) If Heinz's actions are viewed in the context of society as a whole, and not as an isolated case, does not change your answer to #1? Why or why not? 3) If one sins in order perform a mitzva, does that negate the performance or the value of the mitzva? Why or why not? 4) In what situations could or should it be permissible to sin in order to perform a mitzva?