[quote=The Nexerus] PLOT TWIST: The maker of the medicine needs to charge $2,000 because HIS wife has an entirely different kind of cancer, for which there is no cure at all, and he needs to make as much money as possible off of his invention in order to fund his continued research to try and save his wife.PLOT TWIST II: The kind of cancer that the drugist's wife suffers from is much more common than the kind that Heinz' wife suffers from. By charging for his drug and continuing his tireless efforts to try and cure this much more common disease, he is saving countless lives.PLOT TWIST III: While he's in the drugist's laboratory stealing the cure, he also decides to poach some very valuable medical equipment for personal gain. Not only does this constitute theft from the drugist, it also hampers his efforts to try and cure a deadly disease. [/quote] I have no clue what you're trying to say here or what your point is. You're changing the hypothetical again and again. In what I'm guessing is an effort to angle the question towards a different general answer. Those are four different hypothetical scenarios with four different sets of factors. You can't just expand the confines of a hypothetical question at your whim. He's not doing it for his own wife. He's selling it at a high price for selfish financial gain. The other man is not going to steal anything else. Am I being trolled? @Dervish The point is that the seller is in fact doing it for purely selfish gain. More gain than he needs. I know that's the weak point of the argument if it was a real life scenario. But the point of the hypothetical is that the merchant is in fact being a "bad guy." EDIT: It's not trying to trick you into feeling empathy. You probably should feel empathy. But the real question is whether or not this sob story of a guy should steal from a heartless man in order to save a life. The amount of empathy you feel and the amount of morals you flex is entirely up to you. You're not meant to sperg out and try to break the question because you feel like it is trying to trick you. You're supposed to answer honestly. There is no right answer. And the only wrong answer is one that doesn't follow the rules of the hypothetical.