Question

A poor man has tried every legal means possible to get the medicine that will save his child’s life. He is placed in a situation where it would be easy to steal enough money to purchase the medicine, and he is unlikely to be caught. Which kind of dilemma does this incident represent? moral generational technical cultural

Answer 1

The question presents the following scenario: A poor man has tried every legal means possible to get the medicine that will save his child’s life. He is placed in a situation where it would be easy to steal enough money to purchase the medicine, and he is unlikely to be caught. He would like to do it, since it would help his child, but his action would be morally wrong - so this is a moral dilemma: his action is assumed to be wrong according to the moral standards of theft being seen as immoral

Answer 2

The kind of dilemma that above situation represents is the moral dilemma.

Moral dilemma refers to the situation or conflict in which choice has to be made between two or more choices, also each reason constituting a moral reason to chose for action.

As with the inference from the above situation, the man being poor he tries every legal and ethical way to get the medicines for his child to save a life. Unfortunately, he is unable to. As a result, he had another option to steal money and get the medicines easily by not getting caught. Hence, the poor man is caught in a moral dilemma whether he should try more legal ways and let his child suffer or should steal the money to save his child's life. Such a situation creates a moral reason for him to perform a particular action.