That distinction may be clearer if we look in greater detail at different ways of evaluating the husband's behavior. Table 5.3 outlines Kohlberg six stages of moral development, as well as how a person at each might evaluate the husband's behavior. Note that the six stages them selves are organized into three higher-order levels: the level, in which a person's criteria for moral behavior are based primarily on self interest such as avoiding punishment or being rewarded, the conventional level, in which the criteria for moral behavior are based pri marily on gaining others approval and behaving conventionally; and the post conventional level, in which the criteria are based on universal, abstract principles that may even transcend the laws of a particular society. Finall to say moral development progresses in invariant stages does not imply that all individuals actually achieve the highest stages. Few adults do How do you think, in that regard, a political leader at the conventional level may differ in behavior(such as in the"stands" he or she takes on is sues) from one at the postconventional level?