One of the better episodes. A man gets robbed of a kidney for a rich man's daughter. Should the rich man who paid for it charged with the crime of attempted murder?
Good points: Presents a moral dilemma. Willful blindness. Example: A man gives a truck driver an illegal parcel to deliver, without the driver knowing that the parcel is illegal and with instruction not to look what is inside, for a sum of money. The driver gets caught. Should he be charged? The daughter who gets the kidney defends her father to Stone saying that the man still had one kidney and he was going to be a wealthy man with the money her father set in his name, and Stone asked her: "Do you think your father would have acted any differently had you needed a heart and not a kidney?" Bravo!
Disappointing point: The rich man is convicted not for willful blindness but because proof is found (a tape of his conversation with the doctor who robbed the kidney) that he indeed intended that the kidney be found 'at any cost' including murder, if necessary. Thus the moral dilemma is not expounded upon.
Good points: Presents a moral dilemma. Willful blindness. Example: A man gives a truck driver an illegal parcel to deliver, without the driver knowing that the parcel is illegal and with instruction not to look what is inside, for a sum of money. The driver gets caught. Should he be charged? The daughter who gets the kidney defends her father to Stone saying that the man still had one kidney and he was going to be a wealthy man with the money her father set in his name, and Stone asked her: "Do you think your father would have acted any differently had you needed a heart and not a kidney?" Bravo!
Disappointing point: The rich man is convicted not for willful blindness but because proof is found (a tape of his conversation with the doctor who robbed the kidney) that he indeed intended that the kidney be found 'at any cost' including murder, if necessary. Thus the moral dilemma is not expounded upon.
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