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Date Posted: 19:14:09 03/18/07 Sun
Author: Jessica Roesch
Subject: Heinz's dilemma

I thought that the Heinz's dilemma exercise that we did in class was really interesting. while i had been exposed to this example before, I had never considered how people from different age groups and moral levels of development might respond in entirely different ways. It was really difficult at times for our group to decide on which level to place given responses. When presented with the dilemma, there are many arguments that can be formed for a particular solution I think that people use their own experience or what they have been taught when forming their opinion. For this same reason, two people can read the description of the dilemma in two different ways. I don't think these individual differences make one person more or less moral, just different. It's always interesting to me how perceptions can be so different and forces me to consider that other people don't see things as i see them.

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[> Re: Heinz's dilemma -- Missy Flinn, 21:21:52 03/21/07 Wed

The Heinz exercise and learning about Kohlberg's stages really opened my eyes to a new way of thinking about moral dilemmas. Rather than thinking in mere black and white terms of right and wrong, the focus is turned toward the reasoning used to arrive at an opinion. It is the moral reasoning and the particular developmental stage that people are functioning at that influence a person's point of view. I had studied Kohlberg before, but had never applied it to a real world situation.

>I thought that the Heinz's dilemma exercise that we
>did in class was really interesting. while i had been
>exposed to this example before, I had never considered
>how people from different age groups and moral levels
>of development might respond in entirely different
>ways. It was really difficult at times for our group
>to decide on which level to place given responses.
>When presented with the dilemma, there are many
>arguments that can be formed for a particular solution
> I think that people use their own experience or what
>they have been taught when forming their opinion. For
>this same reason, two people can read the description
>of the dilemma in two different ways. I don't think
>these individual differences make one person more or
>less moral, just different. It's always interesting
>to me how perceptions can be so different and forces
>me to consider that other people don't see things as i
>see them.

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[> Re: Heinz's dilemma -- Evelyn Moore, 21:40:28 03/21/07 Wed

I could not agree more. I believe that we lean on our own life experiences in every stage of our development. Much like Kolhberg we lean on our experiences to the poin that in the fifth and sixth stage of Kohlberg's Moral Development we begin to create our own definitions for morality.

>I thought that the Heinz's dilemma exercise that we
>did in class was really interesting. while i had been
>exposed to this example before, I had never considered
>how people from different age groups and moral levels
>of development might respond in entirely different
>ways. It was really difficult at times for our group
>to decide on which level to place given responses.
>When presented with the dilemma, there are many
>arguments that can be formed for a particular solution
> I think that people use their own experience or what
>they have been taught when forming their opinion. For
>this same reason, two people can read the description
>of the dilemma in two different ways. I don't think
>these individual differences make one person more or
>less moral, just different. It's always interesting
>to me how perceptions can be so different and forces
>me to consider that other people don't see things as i
>see them.

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