A Woman Is Dying from a Special Kind of Cancer

A woman is dying from a special kind of cancer.The one drug that the doctors think might save her expensive to make,costing $200,and the druggist is charging 10 times his cost,or $2,000,for a small dose.The sick woman's husband,Heinz,is unable to raise the entire amount.He asks the druggist to lower the price or let him pay the balance later,but the druggist declines.In desperation,Heinz breaks into the druggist's office and steals the drug for his wife. You pose Heinz's moral dilemma to your nephew,Nick.He argues that it was wrong for Heinz to steal the drug because it's against the law.Nick's reasoning demonstrates Kohlberg's ____ level of moral development.

A) preconventional
B) conventional
C) postconventional
D) preoperational