Candice is presented with a moral dilemma. she responds by saying that the person in the dilemma should choose a course of action that will ensure that people will not think badly of that person. candice’s response reflects lawrence kohlberg’s reasoning level of moral development.
a. preconventional
b. conventional
c. autonomous
d. moral
e. postconventional

b. conventional

Explanation:

Lawrence Kohlberg has given three stages or levels of moral development and each stage has two distinct sub-stages.

1. Pre-conventional stage.

2. Conventional stage.

3. Post-conventional stage.

Conventional level: This level of moral reasoning is the second stage of development and is representative of adults and adolescents. At the conventional level, a person's sense of ethics or morality is tied to societal and personal relationships. Basically, in this stage, the morality of an individual's actions is being judged by societal expectations.

to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).