When asked why she participated with other students in a protest against treatment of women on her campus, Kai says that all human beings should have equal rights. According to Kai, the university has rules that treat women unfairly and she is morally against such discriminatory practices. What is Kai's likely moral level according to Lawrence Kohlberg?

A. postconventional reasoningB. conventional reasoningC. unconventional reasoningD. preconventional reasoning

The correct answer is A. postconventional.

Explanation:

This level of moral development consists of an approach from a perspective superior to society. The person who reaches this level sees beyond the norms of his own community, reaching the principles on which any good society is based. Very few adults manage to have a postconventional trial.

Those individuals who reach the postconventional level have their own ethical principles, which include basic human rights such as life, freedom and justice; they see the rules as useful but modifiable mechanisms, instead of absolute norms that must be obeyed without questioning.

Because individuals with a postconventional reasoning overlap their own moral evaluation of situations about social conventions, their behavior, especially in stage six, can sometimes be confused with that of those who are in the preconventional stage.