--- title: Sharing and fairness — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Sharing and fairness», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Sharing means letting others use or have part of what you have, and it builds friendship; but fairness asks a harder question: who should get --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Sharing and fairness # Sharing and fairness Lesson 43 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/0/) — Sharing means letting others use or have part of what you have, and it builds friendship; but fairness asks a harder question: who should get what, and why? - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/1/) — Picture two children and one last slice of cake: one fair way is "one cuts, the other chooses", because the one who cuts will try hard to make both halves the same. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/2/) — People have different ideas of fairness: equal shares for everyone, more for those who need more, or more for those who worked harder; a good answer asks which idea fits the situation. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/3/) — Christians believe God gives gifts to share; the first Christians shared what they had so that no one was in need (Acts 4:32-35), and Jesus praised a poor widow who gave two small coins. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/4/) — For a child today this means taking turns, not leaving anyone out, picking teams kindly, and thinking about people far away who have much less than we do. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/5/) — Sharing means letting others use or have part of what you have. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/6/) — You do not have to share everything; some things are personal or special, but kindness and fairness should guide you. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/8/) — It is kind to share toys with a visiting friend, and it is also fair to put one very special toy away safely before they come. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/9/) — There are three main ideas of fairness: equal shares, shares by need, and shares by effort; people disagree about which fits best (disputed). - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/10/) — When a team wins a prize and one member did most of the work, some say share equally as a team and some say share by effort. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/11/) — A fair turn-taking system gives everyone a go, the same length of time, and is known to everyone before it starts. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/12/) — Leaving someone out of a game on purpose hurts; ask who is left out and why. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/13/) — A group can sometimes have a good reason to limit a game, such as a full team, but not a reason that is unkind to one person. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/14/) — When captains always pick the same children last, fairer ways include numbering off, drawing names, or a teacher making the teams. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/15/) — The first Christians shared their belongings so that no one among them was in need (Acts 4:32-35). - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/16/) — Jesus praised a poor widow who gave two tiny coins, because she gave all she had; he said she had given more than all the rich people who gave out of their spare money (Mark 12:41-44). - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/17/) — Many faiths and humanists teach that the rich should share with the poor; Christians give to charity, Muslims give zakat and Sikhs share food in the langar. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/18/) — People disagree whether giving to charity is a kindness you choose or a duty you owe (disputed); many Christians say it is both. - ← previous: [Finders keepers and what belongs to whom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/42-finders-keepers-and-what-belongs-to-whom/) - next →: [Cheating, rules and games](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/44-cheating-rules-and-games/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)