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How would you handle this moral dilemma?

Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development Read more from
Chapter Psychological Development Across the Lifespan

Lawrence Kohlberg used this vignette in his research on moral development. He was less interested in the content of the answers—whether Heinz should or should not have stolen the drug—than in the nature of the reasoning people used to come to a moral decision.