Philosophy Discussion - Human Rights

Last week (Friday 31st August) we used the book The United Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures as a stimulus for discussion. These are some of the things that we came up with:

Sometimes they have lots and lots of countries that have different amounts of prime ministers and they like to fight over which country is the best.

You don’t have the right to say someone’s idea is stupid.

We don’t have the right to start wars, ‘cause if we start wars, I went to England and I saw some holes in buildings ‘cause of the wars.

We don’t have the right to have people’s houses when they say we can’t.

We don’t have the right to bully people.

We don’t have the right to chop down trees.

We don’t have the right to talk when other people are talking.

We don’t have the right to snatch.



We do not have the right to kill other people if they say no.

We don’t have the right to hit people.

We don’t have the right to follow people when they move.

We don’t have the right to bite.

We don’t have the right to catch sharks and chop their fins off and chuck them back in the water. Some other countries kill whales.

We don’t have the right to kill animals.

Shops don’t have the right to kill animals ‘cause then there might only be one left and then they might be extinct.




Do we have the right to kill animals to eat?
You don’t have the right to kill some animals if we don’t want to eat that type of meat. and we think it’s not nice to kill that type of animal because some animals are really nice to you and they give you stuff like chickens because they give you eggs and dogs because they are cute.

We do have the right to kill lambs because they have babies every summer and spring. The farmers get new lambs every summer and spring. They are yummy to eat fun to eat them.