 By the time they reach their fourth birthday, many children offer what social domain theorists take to be the “moral” pattern of criterion judgments about transgressions that involve harm. How do they recognize that these behaviors have a distinct status? According to Turiel’s “constructivist” account, both perception and reasoning play a central role. Here is a passage in which Turiel describes the process in some detail. It focuses on the hypothetical example of “Event A” in which a child in a nursery school who wants to use a swing that is being used by another child pushes the other child off the swing and hits him.