Some psychologists claim that empathic responses are forms of moral behavior.
Conclusion
Children lack the moral reasoning skill necessary for their behavior to count as moral.
Evidence
Children provided unsophisticated verbal responses to hypothetical moral dilemmas.
Evaluate
If we were going to try to argue that , how would we respond to the fact that they provided unsophisticated verbal responses to hypothetical moral dilemmas?
We might say the hypothetical moral dilemmas are dumb / irrelevant / exotic / unlikely to be something a child could weigh in on based on their deficient knowledge of the world (not their moral deficiency).
We might say that children aren't verbally talented enough to provide a sophisticated verbal response, even though their moral intuitions are still sophisticated. In other words, they aren't responding poorly out of a lack of moral prowess but rather out of a lack of verbal prowess.
Goal
Look for an answer that gives us a way to argue that kids do have moral reasoning skills or one that allows us to "make an excuse" for kids' poor verbal answers to these hypothetical moral dilemmas.