It is hard for me to say if I agree with Kohlberg's stages of moral development. I think that he described certain characteristics that people can have when faced with some sort of moral dilemma, but I don't think that any person could be at just one stage. I did a little research and I found that in order to be at stage six, the person must have one solution or judgment to a certain moral dilemma. I find it hard to believe that a person could only have one answer to anything concerning morals because various situations require different answers, and they each have to be obtained differently. I think that in different situations a person can take on different stages of the development, or in some cases they might have combined more than one stage to arrive at a solution.
             When I first read Kohlberg's theory I reasoned myself to be at stage six. I thought that I made decisions on morals through my own principals and not the law. Then I read that most adults are at the stages three or four, and only about ten percent of the adult population is at stage five. But I still think that I am at stage six, based on many of my decisions involving the moral dilemmas. I have to admit that my stages did fluctuate during different situations, but I think that for the most part I stayed at a stage six. For example the dilemma about the woman who had cancer and her husband stole for the medicine, I though that it was right for him to steal the medicine for his wife's life's sake. I think that the pharmacist did a larger crime by selling people's chances of survival at a high price for his own selfish reasons. That, I think is a judgment at level six. But, again my judgment didn't stay the same for all of the situations. The situation with the captain of the ship, throwing people off the lifeboat, I think that he was guilty of murder, which I think is at stage four. I think that most of my decisions w
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