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What are the similarities between the Adolf Hitler dilemma in "Men and Women Use Different Scales to Weigh Moral Dilemmas" and Dilemma 3 in "The Kohlberg Dilemmas?

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Answer: Both dilemmas are used to analyze how people make difficult decisions

Step-by-step explanation:

In Adolf hitler dilemma, Women tend to be more likely to have a negative, emotional, gut-level reaction for causing harm to other people in the dilemmas, to another person, whereas men on ther other hand are less likely to express this strong emotional reaction to harm.

While in Kolhberg dilemma 3 portrays a tough decision Heinz has to make to keep his wife alive, by stealing the drugs.

Both dilemmas show the difficult decisions individuals have to make, once decides if to kill hitler as he has time traveled back to 1920s killing hitler would help prevent the war, and stealing the drug would help keep Heinz wife alive.

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