Steven Spielberg's Preconventional Stages

As society grows, the laws stray further away from survival and make unimportant issues sensitive. This is due to the offspring and youth of a certain social order who were taught certain laws and customs at such a young age. They are faintly manipulated by a society and were born into an illusion of free will. There are certain stages of human development where one experience moral development in a said society. These stages consist of infantry to the early stages of adulthood and inject an idea and identity of their society and themselves. In the preconventional stage, children are taught what is right and wrong and if they wrong society they are often punished. This punishment motivates them to follow a certain society's morals, which creates

Overall, the preconventional stage sets a platform or a foundation of a human’s personality by punishing and rewarding for what they think is wrong and right which induces obedience to a certain society. Eventually, children later reach their school age in which they are required to be social towards the community instead of just their parents. This age is commonly known as the school age and in Kohlberg's theory, the conventional stage. The conventional stage consists of a social submission to society in lieu of learning from guardians. In this stage, not only are they fueled by punishment but also rewards, their morals are charged with the essence of conformity. The conventional stage allows them to motivate themselves by looking at others and simply following to fit in with society. In this stage they strive to make others happy or proud they might also want to please anyone higher in authority in a said society. At this point their thought process consists of maintaining and creating friendships, trust, and loyalty. Like the preconventional stage, they are focused on rewards in a social

Post-conventional morality: the next stage which occurs in adulthood is the reverence of laws even if they don't apply to their own altered morals. In a way, the adults form a wall around their moral views which makes it nearly impossible to change. Their sense of compassion, morality, and social responsibility is locked in, they permanently adhere to the laws of their society. They focus on the betterment of society. This stage gives the adult the responsibility to state their views and consider the flexibility of rules to make a society advanced. It also gives them the responsibility to pass ideals of a society to the next generation: creating a cycle that strengthens and reinforces a society. However, there is another stage where one disregards society's laws. Like the social contract stage, they question the laws of society and create their own morals. Either they want to be different or they want to change society's morals to a great extent (Kohlberg 1). This stage is called the universal ethical principle which proves that the sense of morality is universal and nothing is right or