qwiddity | An alternative Ten Commandments

George Carlin did a skit as part of his impressive live comedy act "Life Is Worth Losing" where he distilled the essential nature of the Ten Commandments down to, I believe, only three.
I think that as society matures, our concept of deity ought to mature in parallel, so it's probably long past time to update a list of ten things to do or not do which make everyone feel better about living in society. These sorts of oaths aren't just in the commandments, they're mirrored in the teachings of Asclepius and Hippocrates, who also have their own oaths pertaining to the medical profession which are somewhat older than the Ten Commandments given to Moses when he visited the mountaintop, and it'd be good to get a decent dose of their philosophy into a new set of ten easy to understand rules everyone can follow relatively easily in today's crushingly modern world (and I mean to avoid the verbosity and oversupply of misinformation and irrelevancies generated by long lists of rules such as "The Rules Of The Internet").
So here goes:

Rules for Living Well In Times of Post-Scarcity:
1. First, do no harm.
2. Be good; don't be bad!
3. Know your flaws and learn to love yourself anyway--or nobody else will either.
4. Enjoy life; eventually, the only person you will have to justify your existence to is yourself.
5. When faced with doing something against your better judgement, it's better to do nothing.
6. Use technology appropriately.
7. Try to stop any bleeding before it stops by itself.
8. Human emergencies constitute no urgency on the universe's behalf.
9. Reason is the only faculty capable of solving problems reason creates.
10. While some harms are forgivable, there is no justification for evil.

Addendum: Failure to comprehend, understand, and uphold such simple rules makes you suspect of being an inhuman monster. Humans have no compunctions against killing evil monsters and dumping their unconsecrated bodies unceremoniously into the ocean, so beware of being evil.

Now this segues well into something I've been saying for well over 10 year now which is that we're living in a post-scarcity economy. How do I know this? Well, society has so much control over everyone's life that in these times everyone's personalities are undeniably shaped by the pressures of society and our reactions to them. What's more, society has such an iron grip of control over it's citizens that we cannot get out of the system! Eventually we will have frontiers again, but for now only the most dedicated, most extreme survivalists can exercise any reasonable degree of control over their own destinies if they choose to exist apart from society. In a seethingly civilised world of more than seven billion humans, the number of "wild people" probably numbers in the thousands, and it's likely that if you're safely ensconsed on the couch you'll never ever see them.

Wow. I just lost almost a thousand important words to myself because of this shitty LJ iOS app. Because of task-switching. Darn. I don't want to re-write all that. I am so annoyed. Prepare for a one-star review on the App Store, LiveJournal!