Heinz Steals the Drug

In Europe, a woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctor's thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a pharmacist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the pharmacist 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 pharmacist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the pharmacist 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.

(Source: Kohlberg, 1963, p. 19)

a)Critically discuss from the ethical viewpoint whether it is right for the husband to have broken into the man's store to steal the drug for his wife? Why or why not?