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The Heinz Dilemma is typically stated as follows:
en.wikipedia.org
Those who say no state that the law is the law, and that stealing is always wrong. However, the generally agreed-upon answer among philosophers is that yes, Heinz was justified. The reasons.
1. The law doesn't dictate morality
In general, the law is only a consideration in the prudential sense that one may fear going to court or getting assaulted by a police officer. One should not, in any case, obey the law; one should fear the law, in the same way that one may fear a hurricane but that the hurricane does not confer any moral obligations.
2. The sanctity of lives outweighs whatever satisfaction the doctor may get from witholding the drug
Saving a human life is a more fundamental value than the property rights of another person.
So what does this have to do with rape? Well, sexlessness and a lack of intimacy is DETRIMENTAL to your health. This has been proven with prison studies.
Much like Heinz, we have tried to bargain for sex. We tried the nice way. It didn't work. Now we are sex-starved and it is destroying our mental health. It will eventually lead to us roping. It is NOT immoral to rape, for the sanctity of life is greater than the personal comforts of women. It is NOT immoral for Heinz to steal medicine for his wife, and it is NOT immoral for you to rape for your mental health.
- A woman was on her deathbed. There was one drug that the doctors said would 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 produce. 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 laboratory to steal the drug for his wife
Heinz dilemma - Wikipedia
Those who say no state that the law is the law, and that stealing is always wrong. However, the generally agreed-upon answer among philosophers is that yes, Heinz was justified. The reasons.
1. The law doesn't dictate morality
In general, the law is only a consideration in the prudential sense that one may fear going to court or getting assaulted by a police officer. One should not, in any case, obey the law; one should fear the law, in the same way that one may fear a hurricane but that the hurricane does not confer any moral obligations.
2. The sanctity of lives outweighs whatever satisfaction the doctor may get from witholding the drug
Saving a human life is a more fundamental value than the property rights of another person.
So what does this have to do with rape? Well, sexlessness and a lack of intimacy is DETRIMENTAL to your health. This has been proven with prison studies.
- Arguably, sexual satisfaction can be considered an essential component of general well-being and mental health. Empirically, higher sexual satisfaction is associated higher mental health and lower depression
- The recognition of the need to be loved, appreciated and cared for, and of the desire for intimate relationships that provide emotional sustenance and empathy, have been considered important aspects for maintaining mental health in prisons
- Again, sexual satisfaction was found to be significantly associated with mental health, as in other prison studies
- Lack of sexual contact in prison has even been named by inmates as “sexual torture”
- In sum, this current investigation has found (a) lower levels of both sexual satisfaction and mental health in the sexually abstinent group, and (b) a stronger sexual satisfaction and mental health association in that group. Our perspective is that sexual satisfaction has been strongly correlated with mental health for the abstinent inmates likely because they are in a sexually worse or more deprived situation, and a similar, strong sexual satisfaction-mental health correlation should be observable in other comparably compromised situations or populations.
- According to this, clinical interventions to increase sexual access could be introduced to enhance inmates’ sexual satisfaction. This in turn should be associated with an increase in their mental health.
- Promoting positive mental health in prison inmates during incarceration and therefore increasing the likelihood of a successful reentry into society is a central concern with important consequences for public health, security, and the economy.
Much like Heinz, we have tried to bargain for sex. We tried the nice way. It didn't work. Now we are sex-starved and it is destroying our mental health. It will eventually lead to us roping. It is NOT immoral to rape, for the sanctity of life is greater than the personal comforts of women. It is NOT immoral for Heinz to steal medicine for his wife, and it is NOT immoral for you to rape for your mental health.
