Cliff is offered an attractive incentive to steal sensitive information about his company's wealthy investment customers. Which of the following statements best reflects Cliff's thoughts if he is at the principled level of moral development?

a. By stealing from another person, I will be in violation of the moral standards I've come to expect of myself.
b. If my involvement is detected, my friends and family would be humiliated by my actions.
c. If I am convicted for this crime, I will surely be imprisoned and will probably never be employed anywhere else.
d. My job is to protect the information that this company deals in and I should not be violating my duties.

A.By stealing from another person, I will be in violation of the moral standards I've come to expect of myself.

Explanation:

Cliff is offered an attractive incentive to steal sensitive information about his company's wealthy investment customers. Which of the following statements best reflects Cliff's thoughts if he is at the principled level of moral development?

Kohlberg defined three levels of moral development: pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional  also known as the principled level.

Post-conventional level of moral development is the highest stage of morality in Kohlberg's model, in which individuals have developed their own personal set of ethics and morals that they use to drive their behavior, the individual sense of morality has been defined in terms of  principles and values and the person's ethical reasoning of moral decisions are based on rights, values, duties etc which moves beyond the perspective of his or her own society.

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