RAMILLO, AUDREY BRENT

TUMAMPOS, JOREN

LINA, NERISSA FAYE C.

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Directions: Each group (3 students each group) will identify the stages of the agents in each case and

justify their answer.

1. There are people suggesting that the Local Government Units shall disclose the personal

Details of patients with covid-19 so that they know if they had contacted that person days

before the result of RT-PCR Test and also to protect their family’s health. However, there is a

law which protects each covid-19 patient from discrimination. Analyze the act of those

people and which stage of moral development their moral reasoning may fall.

ANSWER:

In this case the person in the society knows that there is a law declared by the Government to
protect the real identity of the Covid-19 patients. They understand the law but they choose to ask the
authority to disclose the main idea in the situation for them to be more aware and safe. This is under
“Level 3: Post conventional or principled level” which tells that the people move or do actions beyond
the perspective of their society. In this scenario, the agent of stage 5 occurred (Social Contract
Orientation). It indicates that the moral reasoning of an individual act needs to follow the law but
instead of supporting it, they do the opposite action for their personal interest.

2. A mother of two wrote a letter to the Elementary Principal. She requested that junk foods and

soda should be banned in their school canteen. Her youngest son was hospitalized for several

months due to kidney failure and needed to file leave of absence for early recovery. Her

reason of writing a letter was not only for the welfare of his son but also for the welfare of all

students in the school. However, the canteen was cooperative store where all teachers and

some parents have shares and receive dividend every year. Part of their dividend is allotted to
feeding program of the school where majority of the students benefitted. Which do you think

needs to be addressed and why?

ANSWER:

In this instance I think it's the “Stage 4: Law and order orientation”, which social rules and
laws determine behavior. The individual now takes into consideration a larger perspective, that of
societal laws. Moral decision making becomes more than consideration of close ties to others. The
individual believes that rules and laws maintain social order that is worth preserving. The mother
thinks that it is a good idea to stop selling junk foods so that the other student will not experience the
same as her child experienced. She considers also the larger perspective, which is the other students
health to what will happen if the selling of junk foods continue. And instead of selling junk foods they
conduct feeding program for the student to maintain their good health.

3. A scientist was alarmed on the continuous destruction of mother earth. Bodies of water are

polluted, there are massive destruction of forests and there are animals which are now extinct.

There are numerous natural disasters happening all over the world in a year and many lives

are already gone. To save the mother earth, he made a virus that will control population. For

him, controlling population will save the earth. Which moral reasoning a scientist’s behavior

may fall? Do you think his action is morally right? Justify it using moral stages of

development.

ANSWER:

No, because the scientist did not considered the struggles that bring out of the pandemic to
those people who lived in the society and also he didn’t give importance to the lives of human being.
This situation tells that humans disobey the rules of taking care of mother earth so that the scientist
decided to give punishment to everyone by creating a virus that leads to people realization about the
significant of the world we lived . This scenario was accurate to the level 1 of Pre conventional level
which tells that people judge right and wrong based on external rather than internal standards, and
emphasis is placed on avoiding punishment and maximizing self-interests. It is considered place in
“Stage 1: Punishment/obedience orientation” which tells that the physical consequences of action
determine its goodness or badness regardless of the human meaning or value of these consequences.
Avoidance of punishment and unquestioning deference to power are values in their own right, not in
terms of respect for an underlying moral order supported by punishment and authority.