Rebecca responded to the heinz dilemma by saying "heinz shouldn't steal the drug because stealing is against the law and our society has to outlaw theft in order to be a good place to live." rebecca is in kohlberg's stage of moral reasoning.

Social system morality.

Explanation:

Kohlberg developed a new model (three levels with two stages each) because he thought Piaget's was simplistic.

The social system morality stage is characterised as fulfilling social duties in order to keep the social system going and the moral jugdment as avoiding critisism by a respected authority.

In this case, Rebecca is fulfilling her social duties (not breaking the law (a social convention)) whilst avoiding the critisism. Hence, she is in the social system morality stage.

as university of miami psychologists debra lieberman and adam smith pointed out in a recent article in the journal current directions in psychological science, humans have social and psychological mechanisms to deter incest. with very few exceptions, marriages between brothers and sisters and between parents and their children are verboten in every human culture. the primary psychological anti-incest mechanism is the yuck response. even the idea of sex with their mom or dad, bro or sis is upsetting to most people. the psychologist jonathan haidt has found that nearly everyone is repelled by the prospect of brother-sister sex, even in hypothetical situations in which there is no chance of pregnancy).

the biological cost of incest

this raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. this explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches to chimpanzees. second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

why should mechanisms to avoid incest be so widespread both in nature and across human societies? the answer is simple. the problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect.

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