Heinz's wife is dying. A druggist has the only drug that can save her but charges ten times what it costs to make — far more than Heinz can pay. The druggist refuses to sell cheaper or wait for payment, so Heinz considers breaking in to steal it. Kohlberg found that what people decide matters less than how they justify it. Read each justification and place it in the right stage.
The moral ladder
Six stages climb through three levels. Higher is not "smarter" — it is a wider circle of who and what the reasoning considers.
Six justifications, six stagestap the stage each reasoning fits