Being_Honor_Bred

Being Honor Bred Being Honor Bred In the short story “Being Honor Bred” by Dominick Yezzo, the authors illustrates how we as humans go through different stages in making our decisions. These stages are known as the Kohlberg’s moral decision making stages. First the story begins with him being at the bar and noticing that Mom-San was beautiful but she had a husband and he respected that. Here we see Stage One Obedience and Punishment Social Orientation. He was being obedient by respecting Mom-Sam and her husband because if he did not then his punishment would be getting beat up by her husband. Then as he enters the other bar he sees this prostitute and goes into a room behind a bar to have sex, even though he describes her like a unattractive lady. Here his decision is based on Stage two Individualism, instrumentalism, and exchange. He is exchanging pleasure for money. Even though she said only five dollars he decides to give him everything he had in his pocket. He does this because he feels that she is only doing this to make money to survive so to show respect for her he gives her honor, bred, because, stage, social, being, five, failed, contract, story, stages, sins, sin, realizes, punishment, orientation, moral, money, let, husband, goes, god, even, bar, though, shows, shot, reasoning, really, realizing, one, obedience, now, making, killing