Using the slide on moral reasoning, try to overcome potential resistance, providing convincing arguments to the people involved. Develop three tiers of arguments of different complexity depending on the developmental level of a particular person you address.

Descriptions of Stages Examples of Moral Examples of Moral Reasoning Reasoning in Support Against Stealing the Drug of Stealing the Drug Preconventional Level Stage 1: "Bad" behavior "If you let your wife die, "If you steal the drug, you will is that which is punished. you will get in trouble." get in trouble." Stage 2: "Good" behavior "If you do happen to "Even if you were caught and is that which is concretely get caught, you could didn't get much of a sentence, rewarded. give the drug back your wife would probably die and not get much of while you were in jail and it a sentence." wouldn't do you much good." Conventional Level Stage 3: "Good" behavior "If you don't steal the "Everyone would know you is that which is approved drug, you'll never be are a thief." by others; "bad" behavior able to look anyone in is that which is disapproved the face again." by others. Stage 4: "Good" behavior "If you have any sense "If you stole the drug, conforms to standards set of honor, you'd do your however desperate you felt, by social institutions; duty as a husband and you'd never be able to look transgressions lead to steal the drug." at yourself in the mirror feelings of guilt or dishonor. again." Postconventional Level Stage 5: "Good" behavior "If you don't steal the "We've all agreed to live by conforms to community drug you'd lose your common rules, and any form standards set through own respect and of stealing breaks that bond." democratic participation; everyone else's too." concern with maintaining self-respect and the respect of equals. Stage 6: "Good" behavior "If you didn't steal it, "Maybe others would have is a matter of individual you might have satisfied approved of your behavior, conscience based on the letter of the law, but but stealing the drug would responsibly chosen you wouldn't have lived still have violated your own commitments to ethical up to your own standards conscience and standards of principles. of conscience." honesty.&quot