In the Victor Hugo Story Les Misérables , a Character

question 55

Multiple Choice

In the Victor Hugo story Les Misérables , a character named Valjean steals a loaf of bread to feed a starving child. How would psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg describe this act?

• A)Kohlberg would not be surprised because he saw humans as morally corrupt.
• B)Kohlberg would argue that the act of theft is not in and of itself immoral, depending on the rationale for the theft.
• C)Kohlberg would have expected the theft if the child were Valjean's but not if the child belonged to someone else.
• D)Kohlberg would have expected the theft but only if Valjean were operating at the lowest level of moral reasoning.

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