--- title: Rights, duties and community dilemmas — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Rights, duties and community dilemmas», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Living together means rights and duties: you have a right to sleep, your neighbour has a right to enjoy music, and when righ --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/) [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/) / Rights, duties and community dilemmas # Rights, duties and community dilemmas Lesson 49 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 17 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/49-rights-duties-and-community/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/0/) — Living together means rights and duties: you have a right to sleep, your neighbour has a right to enjoy music, and when rights clash they must be balanced, for example music off after ten at night. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/1/) — Free speech is precious, but so is not causing needless hurt: we can disagree with someone's religion without mocking what they hold holy. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/2/) — Children have a right to be heard on things that affect them, and groups often decide by voting, but the majority must still protect the minority. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/3/) — Jesus taught love of neighbour and welcome to the stranger, and many faiths teach the same; justice and mercy can work together, as when a wrongdoer puts right the harm they did. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/4/) — For a child today this means listening to both sides, speaking kindly about other people's faith, and helping to mend a broken friendship rather than only punishing. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/5/) — When two people's rights clash, such as a right to sleep and a right to play music, they need to be balanced. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/6/) — Free speech is precious, but so is not causing needless hurt to others. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/7/) — Disagreeing with someone's religion is fine; mocking what they hold holy causes needless hurt. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/8/) — The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, article 12, says children have a right to be heard on things that affect them. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/9/) — In a democracy decisions are often made by voting, and the side with more votes, the majority, wins. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/10/) — Majority rule must still protect the rights of the minority; the majority is not always right. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/11/) — We have special duties to our own family and general duties to everyone, and both matter. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/12/) — Refugees are people forced to flee their homes because of war or persecution (being hunted or hurt for who you are or what you believe). - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/13/) — Many faiths teach welcoming the stranger; how countries should respond to refugees is a disputed question. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/14/) — Punishment can protect people, show that a wrong was serious and help the wrongdoer change. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/15/) — Christians believe in forgiveness, and that justice and mercy can work together. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/16/) — Restorative justice brings the wrongdoer and the person harmed together to put things right. - ← previous: [Lifeboat choices](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/) - next →: [Mock ethics olympiad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/50-mock-ethics-olympiad/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)