Kohlberg’s stages of moral development case application

Father and Son

Mohamed is a twenty-year-old young man who wants to go to Barcelona very much to see his team play. His father promised him he could go if he saved up the money for it himself. So Mohamed worked hard at his job in ADNOC distribution and saved up the money it cost to go on the trip, and a little more besides. But just before going to Spain, his father changed his mind. His father wanted to buy an expensive present for his new wife, and Mohamed’s father was short of the money it would cost. So his father told Mohamed to give him the money he had saved from his job. Mohamed’s father had abandoned his first wife, Mohamed’s mother, when Mohamed was 12 and hadn’t given them any money since he had left. Mohamed didn’t want to give up going to Barcelona, so he thinks of refusing to give his father the money.
1. Should Mohamed refuse to give his father the money?
1a. Why or why not?
2. Does his father have the right to tell Mohamed to give him the money?
2a. Why or why not?
3. Does giving the money have anything to do with being a good son?
3a. Why or why not?
4. Is the fact that Mohamed earned the money himself important in this situation?
4a. Why or why not?
5. The father promised Mohamed he could go to Barcelona if he earned the money. Is the fact that his father promised the most important thing in the situation?
5a. Why or why not?
6. In general, why should a promise kept?
7. Is it important to keep a promise to someone you don’t know well and probably won’t see again?

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