Complex sentence: People who exhibit postconventional morality view rules as useful but changeable mechanisms that ideally can maintain the general social order and protect human rights; rules are not absolute dictates that must be obeyed without question.
Split into simpler sentences: People who exhibit postconventional morality view rules as useful but changeable mechanisms-ideally rules can maintain the general social order and protect human rights. Rules are not absolute dictates that must be obeyed without question.