Your Own Ten Commandments

[Sir Rhetor]

I got this idea as I was thinking about how humans should behave as members of a society. In this thread, I would like the community of this forum collaborate to develop a set of moral guidelines for how people should behave, depending on their role in society. I have yet to come up with ten, but I have some, which I will post in a bit. But some guidelines for this topic are

~You don't need to post ten totally different rules. Add a new rule, or improve upon someone else's.
~I think that guidelines are better than rules, which are absolute. This is where I have a problem with the Bible's "Do not lie" commandments. The Golden Rule is better, because it is flexible.
~Please don't write "Do not segregate (based on race or gender etc.) or enslave others, or subjugate others," because then it becomes rather tedious. Try to generalize it into "Treat all humans with respect, as you wish to be treated" or maybe even something more scientific like "Treat all organisms with respect in proportion with their awareness".
~You should probably make your guidelines hierarchical. There are some things more important than others. I'm not sure if the Bible did this, but if not the question is necessary, "What if one conflicts with another?"
~You don't have to be an atheist if you post here, but please do not declare that God is the source of morality. Is it moral because God said it, or did God say it because He is moral? The first possibility is preposterous, because then God could (and indeed did) order acts which in any other context are completely immoral. And we certainly didn't need God to figure out that slavery was immoral.

[Sir Rhetor]

Apologies for my absence. In the meantime, I came up with a more complete list than I had before.

1. All humans are equally valuable from birth and deserve equal rights. Treat them as such.
2. Protect the innocent from harm, especially by employing fair trials for the accused and condemnation or inhibition of aggressors.
3. Children are vulnerable. Do not molest their bodies nor their minds with indoctrination
4. Treat all organisms, whether unborn or born, humanely and with respect that is proportional to its awareness. Life has intrinsic value.
5. As a general rule in dealing with other individuals, treat them as you wish to be treated.
6. Strive to participate only in sustainable activities.
7. Except when jeopardizing anything above, strive to be honest and do not pretend to know information you do not. The wisest folk are often those who are willing to say "I don't know".
8. Seek to discover truth by employing reason and uncovering evidence; this is the only possible method for doing so. Respect others' opinions, but discourage dogmatism. No idea is impervious to logic and therefore ideas should be viewed with skepticism. Protect information to a degree only inferior to your protection of life.
9. Living in a society means you are indebted to it. Strive to ameliorate the lives of those whose circumstances are inferior to yours.
10. Do not participate in behaviors which bring unnecessary risk to anything.