Your best friend sideswipes a car and drives away without reporting the accident (as required by law). You do not report it either, even though you worry about the owner’s loss. But over the next few days, you do talk to your friend about it, encouraging her to report the accident to the authorities. Your recent actions supporting reporting the incident suggest that you are in which of Kohlberg’s moral reasoning stages?
a. heteronomous morality b. individualism, instrumental purpose, and exchange c. mutual interpersonal expectations, relationships, and interpersonal conformity d. social systems morality