John Q
JOHN Q.
“Give a father no options and you leave him no choice.” The tagline of the film John Q, John Quincy Archibald, the protagonist was left with no choice, but to be drastic because he was forced by the situation where his son was diagnosed with an enlargement of heart. Unfortunately, the insurance of John will not cover his son’s heart transplant and so he becomes desperate, he hostages people in the hospital. John did not do any terrible thing to the hostages; he just wanted his son on the top of the priority list, so that his son could have the heart transplant.
The whole thing was indeed a serious matter, it was really hard for John to do that thing, but he did it for his child, he cannot afford to lose Mike. What he did is wrong, but
he was left with no choice, it’s either he lose his child or wait for his child to be prioritize on the list for the heart transplant which will take a long process and his child’s condition is critical and cannot wait for that long process.
On the theory of the ethical relativism, there are no universally valid moral principles, which mean that what is right for you, might not be right for others, so it is difficult to understand each other’s culture or stand. On John’s situation, what he did was entirely wrong, but for him that is the only thing that is right. It seems that
“Give a father no options and you leave him no choice.” The tagline of the film John Q, John Quincy Archibald, the protagonist was left with no choice, but to be drastic because he was forced by the situation where his son was diagnosed with an enlargement of heart. Unfortunately, the insurance of John will not cover his son’s heart transplant and so he becomes desperate, he hostages people in the hospital. John did not do any terrible thing to the hostages; he just wanted his son on the top of the priority list, so that his son could have the heart transplant.
The whole thing was indeed a serious matter, it was really hard for John to do that thing, but he did it for his child, he cannot afford to lose Mike. What he did is wrong, but
he was left with no choice, it’s either he lose his child or wait for his child to be prioritize on the list for the heart transplant which will take a long process and his child’s condition is critical and cannot wait for that long process.
On the theory of the ethical relativism, there are no universally valid moral principles, which mean that what is right for you, might not be right for others, so it is difficult to understand each other’s culture or stand. On John’s situation, what he did was entirely wrong, but for him that is the only thing that is right. It seems that