Your Best Friend Has Just Been Arrested for Demonstrating at a National

question 32

Multiple Choice

Your best friend has just been arrested for demonstrating at a national forest that has recently been leased to a timber company that was to begin cutting down trees. Your friend feels strongly that we must protect the environment and that the policy of deforestation without replanting is harmful for all inhabitants of the earth. What level of Kohlberg's theory is your friend most likely experiencing?

• A) Preconventional morality
• B) Conventional morality
• C) Postconventional morality
• D) Unconventional morality

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