NAME:__ HEART ANGELYN L.

BALICUG_____
COURSE AND TIME SCHEDULE:____BSN - WF/ 1:00-2:30PM______________
ACTIVITY NO. AND DATE:_______#2_____April 20, 2023____________________

Stages of Moral Development. Kohlberg proposed that moral reasoning, which he thought to be the basis for
ethical behavior, develops through stages. He identified three distinct levels of moral reasoning, with each level
having two sub-stages.

A woman was on her deathbed. There was one drug that the doctors thought might 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.

Should Heinz have broken into the laboratory to steal the drug for his wife? Why or why not?

# Level 6 Stages Heinz should steal the drug, Heinz should not steal
because: the drug, because;
1 It is only worth $200 and not how He will
1 much the druggist wanted for it; Consequently, be put
Obedience Heinz had even offered to pay for in prison which will
Pre- it and was not stealing anything mean he is a bad
Conventional else. person.
2 He will be much happier if he Prison is awful
saves his wife, even if he has to place, and he would
Self - Interest serve a prison sentence. more likely languish
in a jail cell than
over his wife's
death.
3 His wife expects it; she wants to Stealing is bad and
2 be a good husband. he is not a criminal.
Conformity he has tried to do
everything he can
without breaking the
law, you cannot
Conventional blame him.
4 His wife will benefit, but he The law prohibits
should also take the prescribed stealing.
punishment for the crime and pay
Law-and- the druggist what he owed.
order
Criminals cannot just run around
without regard for the laws; actions
have consequences.
5 Everyone has a right to The scientist has a
3 Social choose life, regardless of right to fair
contract the law. compensation. Even
Post- orientation if his wife is sick, it
Conventional does not make his
actions right.
6 Saving a human life is a Others may need the
Universal more fundamental value medicine just as
human than the property rights of badly, and their lives
ethics another person. are equally
significant.