Last Person on Earth
Partner Discussion
Pretend you are the last person on earth. Look through the following list of behaviors and think about which ones would no longer be necessary if you were the only person left on earth. Discuss each situation with a partner and explain your thoughts.
- Keeping quiet after 10:00 p.m.
- Keeping the streets, rivers, and fields free of litter.
- Not trespassing.
- Catching a limit of 6 fish per day.
- Keeping healthy and fit.
- Stopping at all stop signs and red lights.
Scenarios courtesy of Congress for Kids (https://www.congressforkids.net/citizenship_1_alone.htm)
Whole-Group dicussion
- Suppose you wanted to drop a bowling ball off of the roof of a tall building and onto the sidewalk below. Is something like this "wrong" if you are the only person living on the planet?
- Why do you think we have laws? What purposes do they serve?