James is walking down the street one evening when he notices a woman having a seizure on the sidewalk. There is nobody around to help her, and he doesn't have a telephone. Without thinking, James picks up a garbage can,
throws it through the door of a closed convenience store, crawls in through the broken glass, and calls an ambulance. Although he is technically guilty of a crime, which stage of moral reasoning provides us with an acceptable justification for James's actions?
a. Social contract orientation
b. Universal ethical principle orientation
c. Law and order orientation
d. Self-interested exchanges
Answer: B
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A. Low base rates can lead to overprediction. B. High base rates can lead to overprediction. C. Low base rates can lead to underprediction. D. none of the above is a problem as profiling has not been used for school shootings
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