This questionable representativeness of Kohlberg ’s moral incidents seems to have resulted from the unsystematic manner in which he selected his original dilemmas. For his doctoral research in the 1950, he created nine moral dilemmas to which his youthful subjects were asked to respond. Since that time, these same nine incidents have been used for nearly all of the studies conducted by Kohlberg and his followers. Four of the incidents involve people taking others’ property without permission, three concern people being tempted to inform on others, one involves the mercy killing of a terminal cancer patient, and one a soldier’s sacrificing himself for the sake of his military unit. On the basis of respondents’ reactions to these incidents, investigations have drawn conclusions about the stage of the respondents’ moral reasoning. However, even a casual review of life’s moral situations indicates that this selection of dilemmas is hardly representative of the decisions most people face. In effect, a sound system for choosing dilemmas has not been provided by the Kohlberg group. This shortcoming has caused me to mark item 1 as no higher than the “ moderately well” level.