In Kohlberg's (1968) study of moral development, participants' reasoning about moral dilemmas was used to classify them into developmental stages.
Consider a modern dilemma: A whistleblowing researcher must decide whether to leak proprietary climate data that their energy employer is actively suppressing, thereby violating a legally binding non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
Describe how an individual reasoning at each of the two stages of post-conventional moral thinking would approach this dilemma.
