SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Birth Weight, Hallucinogen, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
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There is one drug that might save her. The sick woman"s husband can only borrow . He tells the pharmacist that his wife was dying and asks him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. He gets desperate and breaks into the store and steals the drug. Some say yes, he was doing it for a morally right reason. Some say no, world would be chaos if the entire world acted in their own interests or that he could have found another way to find another to buy the drug. *people answer differently depending on their moral development says kohlberg* Level 1= pre-conventional morality, right and wrong is ultimately determined by rewards or punishments (not much concern for others, egocentric type of thinking), how children and ultimately how a lot of criminals act. Stage 1 = obedience/punishment, whatever leads to punishment is wrong, children (obedience/punishment)