Voor verdere misverstanden te voorkomen:
In Stage five (social contract driven), the world is viewed as holding different opinions, rights and values. Such perspectives should be mutually respected as unique to each person or community. Laws are regarded as social contracts rather than rigid edicts. Those that do not promote the general welfare should be changed when necessary to meet “the greatest good for the greatest number of people”. This is achieved through majority decision, and inevitable compromise. Democratic government is ostensibly based on stage five reasoning.
=> dus dat heeft niets te maken met criminelen die mensen doden voor geld, onverantwoorde weggebruikers, etc...
Lol ik snap echt niet hoe ge daar aan komt, tis gelijk of ge denkt dat een hoge morele ontwikkeling voor u inhoud "do what you like, en al u misdaden voor uzelf goedpraten" => GEEN morele ontwikkeling.
In Stage six (universal ethical principles driven), moral reasoning is based on abstract reasoning using universal ethical principles. Laws are valid only insofar as they are grounded in justice, and a commitment to justice carries with it an obligation to disobey unjust laws. Rights are unnecessary, as social contracts are not essential for deontic moral action. Decisions are not reached hypothetically in a conditional way but rather categorically in an absolute way, as in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. This involves an individual imagining what they would do in another’s shoes, if they believed what that other person imagines to be true. The resulting consensus is the action taken. In this way action is never a means but always an end in itself; the individual acts because it is right, and not because it is instrumental, expected, legal, or previously agreed upon. Although Kohlberg insisted that stage six exists, he found it difficult to identify individuals who consistently operated at that level.
Ik hoop dat er nu geen "slimmeriken" meer een foutief idee gaan krijgen over deze theorie.