Blog post #4

I think John Q was definitely emotionally justified for his actions.  However, as a parent I do not think his actions were morally justifiable.  What parent hasn’t wanted to right a wrong done to their child?  But what a world of chaos we would live in if we all practiced this type of vigilantly justice.  I did not have a clear understanding if by putting the son’s name on the list if this would then bump the next legitimate person down. If so then this would make his actions even more wrong in my eyes because he has just affected another innocent person’s life.

  Although I was cheering for him during the movie I would have to say that I definitely would be classified as having the conventional stage of thinking.  What he did was against the law.  At the point he decided to break the law his moral compass was similar to the hospital and insurance companies.  He did not have the right to traumatize the people in the hospital as he did; they were as innocent as his son.  The officer that he injured and ridiculed was only doing this job to protect the people.  I am unable to justify his actions even when I try to view it from the postconventional perspective.  He was not doing something that was his right or that was based on an ethical principle. He was acting merely on emotion and adrenalin.