Kohlberg's stages of moral development

Imagine, if you will, a man named Heinz. He has a wife who is on her deathbed. He has been told by the doctor that his wife's life can only be saved if he gets a special medicine. This special medicine is the produced by a local druggist. It's not a cheap drug to make, costing about $200 a dose. The druggist sells doses for $2000 for a very good profit. Heinz begs and borrows money from everyone he can think of, managing to secure $1000. He then goes to the druggist and begs for the druggist to lower the price, or extend him some credit he could pay back. But the druggist refuses - it was their right as the creator of the medicine to profit from it. Our intrepid husband, not to be deterred, breaks into the druggist's office to steal a dose for his wife. This ethical scenario is called the Heinz dilemma. In philosophy circles, you can change up the variables in the scenario similar to the trolley problem. But in psychology, it is used to demonstrate Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral…