Question

Though her close friends disagree with her, when asked why she participated with other students in a protest against treatment of minorities on her campus, Kai says that all humans have the fundamental right to be treated fairly, and that she is morally against the continuing discrimination of minority groups. What is Kai’s likely moral level according to Lawrence Kohlberg?

Answer 1

Postconventional

Step-by-step explanation:

Kai is most likely to be at the post-conventional level of moral development according to Kohlberg. This level is reached when a person acts on principles that the person himself has chosen. Moreover, the person at this stage is capable of complex abstract thinking and can understand that moral rules should benefit the majority, even if they might not benefit the person in question. Kai is showing this is the way she thinks about justice, as she is protesting for people that are not closely related to her.