In the Victor Hugo story Les Misérables, a character named Valjean steals a loaf of bread to feed a starving child. How would psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg describe this act?
a. Kohlberg would not be surprised because he saw humans as morally corrupt
b. Kohlberg would argue that the act of theft is not in and of itself immoral, depending on the rationale for the theft.
c. Kohlberg would have expected the theft if the child were Valjean's but not if the child belonged to someone else.
d. Kohlberg would have expected the theft but only if Valjean were operating at the lowest level of moral reasoning.
b
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