Thanks for linking that. I learned something important today.
I don’t think there’s anything here that suggests that a person should ascend this hierarchy. Rather, I think our observations fit the contrary: people clearly can hang out indefinitely at any stage. I suppose it comes down to environment, observation, and motivation to move up a stage. If a person’s circumstances never challenge a given world-view, how else would it change?
What I take away from this is still very positive. What I can see is that a person is unlikely to regress once they understand a more advanced framing for social morality. Each stage carries additional nuance that is incompatible with the more broadly defined stage that precedes it. For example, stage 4 “Law & Order” is incompatible with stage 5 “Social Contract” in that people that adhere to the social contract are typically lawful, but break the law when the law itself (or its enforcement) is unethical. Once a person sees and comprehends that, the evidence is hard to dismiss and a blanket “the law is the law” framing is rendered untenable.
Thanks for linking that. I learned something important today.
I don’t think there’s anything here that suggests that a person should ascend this hierarchy. Rather, I think our observations fit the contrary: people clearly can hang out indefinitely at any stage. I suppose it comes down to environment, observation, and motivation to move up a stage. If a person’s circumstances never challenge a given world-view, how else would it change?
What I take away from this is still very positive. What I can see is that a person is unlikely to regress once they understand a more advanced framing for social morality. Each stage carries additional nuance that is incompatible with the more broadly defined stage that precedes it. For example, stage 4 “Law & Order” is incompatible with stage 5 “Social Contract” in that people that adhere to the social contract are typically lawful, but break the law when the law itself (or its enforcement) is unethical. Once a person sees and comprehends that, the evidence is hard to dismiss and a blanket “the law is the law” framing is rendered untenable.