This can be easily related to the Morality section of the course where we discussed values and moral principles which are the beliefs that are used in judgments to justify the permissibility of actions. This justification can be seen when Mr. Roberts attempts to rationalize the decision to kill one person for his own well-being. He seems to devalue human life since he believes the world is already overpopulated and the death of one is insignificant as long as he does not know them. Thus the death of one person, he reasons, will not affect the social order in society. He also was concerned with what society would think of him if he did decide to kill this person and was relieved to find out that no one would learn of his guilt. He knows that his decision is not socially acceptable and he would certainly be scorned by others if they found out, but thinking that there are no consequences that will directly affect him, he makes the decision. He wants to avoid punishment and only prosper from this choice. Society also influenced his decision since the desire for money and power are highly valued in our culture and these things influence his greed. The man behind the desk is clearly an authority figure who is tempting Mr. Roberts—thus making him more likely to agree to this deal. According to Kolberg, Mr. Roberts is at a very low stage moral development where he only wants to satisfy his own needs and receive rewards for his actions. However, the reason for this seems to be that the decision is not made in normal circumstances since there are many variables that are not present in this office. These variables are as follows: he does not have to see the suffering of the person who he is harming, there is instant gratification, and there is no chance that others will be informed of his devious actions. Hence, he does not have to worry about conforming to acceptable behavior or pleasing anyone other than the figure behind the desk that seems to be encouraging him to press the button. All in all, this is an interesting twist on the exploration of human nature and moral reasoning.

 In our lives there are many different types of development that most people go through. There are also stages within these types of development that helps create who you are as a person. There will be three types of development that I will be explaining in the next couple paragraphs of this essay. Each type of development that I explain will have some importance to my interviewee. One of each of the paragraphs will either describe cognitive development, social development, and moral reasoning.

            The first type of development that I will be describing is cognitive development. In the type of development there are four stages, which were all developed by Piaget. These stages are the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational stages. From birth to about two years we go through the sensorimotor stage. In this stage we learn object permanence and possibly develop stranger anxiety. The next stage is the preoperational stage that occurs from about ages two to six or seven. In this stage we develop our language and egocentrism. Egocentrism is when the child cannot put themselves into someone else place. It’s impossible. From about seven to eleven years of age you should be in the concrete operational stage. In this stage you learn conservation and mathematical transformations. The person that I interviewed was in between this stage and the next stage I will tell you about. The last stage of cognitive development according to Piaget is the formal operational stage. In that last stage is when you develop your abstract logic thinking and you could possibly develop yourself for mature moral reasoning. As I was saying before the person that I interviewed was between the concrete and formal operational stages. One question that really pointed this out to me was when I asked him about the iced tea mix. He knew that if there was more than there was supposed to be that it would be stronger. This would say that he is in the formal operational stage of cognitive development, but when I asked him simple questions to see if he was in the concrete developmental stage at first he seems to struggle a little. This brings me to believe that he is in between two stages.

            Next is social development. There are eight different stages of social development, and Erikson developed them. The first stage occurs when you are an infant. There is and issue of trust vs. mistrust. If your needs are dependably met, infants develop a sense of basic trust, and if no then they develop mistrust. The next stage takes place when you are a toddler. The issue that arises is autonomy vs. shame and doubt. Toddlers learn to exercise will and do things for themselves, or they will doubt their abilities. The subsequent stage will start when you are a preschooler. In this stage your issues will be initiative vs. guilt. Preschoolers learn to initiate tasks and carry out plans, or they feel guilty about effort to be independent. The fourth stage is when you are in elementary school. This issue is competence vs. inferiority. Children either learn the pleasure of applying themselves to tasks, or they feel inferior. This is the stage that I think my interviewee is at. From your teens into your twenties you struggle with the issue identity vs. role confusion. In this stage teenagers work at refining a sense of self by testing roles and then integrating them to form a single identity, or they become confused about whom they are. The next stage occurs when you are in young adulthood. The issue is intimacy vs. isolation and this is when young adults struggle to form close relationships to gain the capacity for intimate love, or they feel socially isolated. Then there is when you have the issue of generativity vs. stagnation and this occurs when you are in middle adulthood. In the middle age, people discover a sense of contributing to the world, usually through family and work, or they may feel a lack of purpose. The last stage is during late adulthood and the last issue is integrity vs. despair. This is when reflecting on his or her life; the older adult may feel a sense of satisfaction of failure. As I said earlier the person that I interviewed was in the stage where the issue is competence vs. inferiority. It seemed as if he was getting the support that he needed from the people around him, but he still felt like he lacked certain qualities. This confused me because he seemed to be both at the same time and I didn’t think that this was possible. So just like the before, he is in the middle of this stage as well.

            The last development area that I will be going into depth with is moral reasoning. It was this area that I was most surprised with overall with the person I interviewed. There are three different types of moral reasoning. They are preconventional, conventional, and postconventional. In the first type, preconventional, you would only listen and follow the rules because you don’t want to get into trouble or you want to get a reward for listening. This is seen mostly in children around age nine and younger. The next stage is conventional and it is seen in mostly everyone else above age nine. This stage is where you follow the rules just because they are the rules and for no other reason. You might have an opinion about it, but you still follow it no matter what. The last stage of morality is called postconventional and some people may never reach this stage of moral reasoning. This is when you decide you can bend or break the rules because of your ethics. The person that I interviewed surprised me because they were in between preconventional and conventional. He still wanted to do things for rewards, but would still follow all the rules if there were no rewards.

            Over the course of this paper I have explained many different types of development that occur during our lives. The first on that I explained was cognitive development, and that the person I interviewed was in between the concrete operational and formal operational stages. In the next paragraph I explained social development. My interviewee was also a little indecisive in how they felt but was still in the elementary school stage. The last paragraph that I had was about moral reasoning. This was also a type of development that the person that I interviewed was confused about. He was stuck in between preconventional and conventional morality. Overall my subject was very undecided, but I was still able to interview him and establish where he was on each different spectrum of development.

These children turn to antisocial personality. They are controlled by law, and other means but they continuously create trouble for society. They are dangerous for society. We as a responsible social member must keep an eye on them and try to eradicate the trouble creating sense from these persons. There are many ways by which their bad habits can be changed and develop them as a good person which can assist to expand more civilized society.

First of all we must take care of their needs, education, basic requirement and their employment. We must also scrutinize their habits, way of dealing with problems, moral reasoning. Through proper conversation and counseling, they can change their personality and find them as an important part of society.