CORE Strenghten Your Life Skills: For Teenagers and Young Adults – English

Unit 3 – Rules help us to live together: Step 2

Task 1

What rules do affect you?

  • Choose one of the following categories that has multiple rules which affect you.
    • School / classroom
    • Your family
    • The community in which you share your room or an apartment
    • Religion
  • Think about the rules from the chosen category. What kinds of rules affect you? For each rule, state why it is good rule.

Task 2

Evaluating the rules

Look at the rules below. Decide whether they are fair, useful, serve the common good, and are enforceable and simple.

  • Fair: Is this rule fair for everybody or does it only benefit some people and discriminate against others?
  • Useful: Does this rule have an actual use?
  • Common good: Does this rule serve the common good?
  • Enforceable: Is it possible to enforce this rule?
  • Simple: Is the rule simple?

Note that in many instances you may not be able to answer those questions with a clear yes or no. Often there is a grey area where you could argue both ways. This is why you will always see what our thoughts were, when your opinion differs from ours.

  • Tap the buttons with which you agree (only the last tap stays high-lighted).
  • After filling in your answer, you will see your choice(s) and whether we agree with it.

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Task 3

Formulating rules that meet all 5 criteria

Go back to the rules you wrote down in «Task 1». Are there any rules that meet all 5 criteria? Can you reformulate the rule in a way that all 5 criteria are met?

  • Post at least one rule in the discussion group below.
  • Read through the other rules which your colleagues shared. Comment on at least one rule and indicate whether it meets all 5 criteria or where you have doubts.