 One of the ways children form judgments of moral necessity regarding actions of the type depicted in Event A would be through comparison of performance of the act itself with its opposite. In the case of the act described in Event A, its negation (in the child’s mental activities) would result in a comparison of its occurrence with its nonoccurrence. If the constructed consequences of its nonoccurrence (the victim is unharmed) are judged to be more desirable than the consequences of its occurrence (the victim is harmed), then inferences will be made regarding how people should act under those circumstances (e.g., people ought not to hit each other). In attempting to understand their social experiences, children form judgments about what is right or wrong and fair or unfair. Such judgments evolve from the child’s experiences but are not latent in the experiences themselves. (Turiel 1983: 43)