Stages of Moral Development Instructions: Please read the following story carefu

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Stages of Moral Development Instructions: Please read the following story carefuly When you are done reading you should rank the characters, moral behaor Gve a 1 to character who behaved best, a 2toecharacter who was second best, and so on You should give a 5 to the person who you hink behaved worst Five people live in this area of the jungle Two groups of huts are separated by the huts on the left live three people: Dave, Jane, and Joe Jbe owns the only canoe on this side of the iver. On the other side of the iver Ive Tarzan and Sam Tarzan and Jane have been going together for some time and plian to be manied someday One day Jane receives a message by camier pamot Tarzan has fallen from a vine and injured himself. He needs her badly, and he asks her to come to him as quickly as possible. Jane rushes down to Joe's house, explains the situation, and asks him to take her across the nver. Joe refuses. sayng hat the nver too dangerous today. She pleads with him, and finally he says that he will take her across the river if she sleeps with him. Jane is very upset and she runs to Dave's house. She tels Dave the story and asks him so he?her ce Joe to take her acoss the mer Daue tels her that he doesnt want to get involved and that she will have to work t out for herse Jane is quibe upset and doesnt know which way to tum. Finaly, she goes back to Joe's house to plead some more. She offers him food, animal thides, even money but he reluses. Finally, she agrees to sleep with him t he promises to take her across the tiver Joe agrees to the bargain The next morning Joe takes Jane across thever. She nshes to Tarzan's treehouse only to discover that he is fxing breaikfast for himself and Cheetah the chimpanzee. It tumed out that Tarzan had not been hurt as bady as he had thought at first. Jane and Tarzan have always been honest with each other so she teils im everything tat happened. He becomes viny upset her englans that he always thought that she was a nice git sells her he doesnt want to see her again, and stomps off into the jungle. Jane is crushed. Eventualy she goes to Sam and eplains everything that has happened Sam gets so angry that he goes off into the jungle and beats up Tarzan Please rank the characters from best to worst. Remember, a 1 means best a means worst

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Ranking of characters from best to worst.

1.Jane has the best character as she transcend the societal norm of sexual convention and decided to sleep with Joe to save Tarzan's life. Her act was unconditional and followed her inner conscience and ethics to save a man's life , even if that meant going against the societal norms of 'what is right and wrong'(sleeping with other men is looked down upon as promiscuous and lack of character) . She defied this and chose to save a person's life.

2.Sam. He decided to beat Tarzan, not out of personal conflict but out of empathy for Jane. His approach to handle the situation was incorrect but his intention was not to hurt Tarzan , but to confront him about his mistreatment towards Jane.

3.Tarzan. Tarzan believed in maintaining relationship through trust and loyalty and took into account the society's definition of 'who is a good and a bad woman' while deciding to break up with Jane. He is what Kolhberg defines as conventional morality.

4.Joe. Joe is what Kolhberg defines as pre-conventional morality which is based on favours i.e. one's act is primarily based on the rewards and benefits they would recieve when engaging in a relationship.

5.Dave. Dave is considered as the most immoral man by me . A person who remains silent at the sight of injustice or inequality is an accomplice. He lacked moral ethics to help Jane who desperately needed help. He could have helped but decided to remain neutral and act like a unethical coward.

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