James is walking down the street one evening when he notices a woman having a seizure on the sidewalk.There is nobody around to help her,and he doesn't have a telephone.Without thinking,James picks up a garbage can,throws it through the door of a closed convenience store,crawls in through the broken glass,and calls an ambulance.Although he is technically guilty of a crime,which stage of moral reasoning provides us with an acceptable justification for James's actions?
A) Social contract orientation
B) Universal ethical principle orientation
C) Law and order orientation
D) Self-interested exchanges

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Universal ethical principle orientation suggests that individuals operate based on their own defined set of ethical principles, which may sometimes conflict with societal or legal standards. In this case, James may have believed that the immediate need to help the woman in distress outweighed the potential consequences of breaking into the store.

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