TEN COMMANDMENTS REDUX

Using common sense as a source of moral authority, which must be credited with having kept our species from exterminating itself long before any religion enslaved it, I have reworked the Ten Commandments as follows:

1. Don't murder people. Period.

2. Slavery is wrong, so don't make slaves of one another.

3. Don't take stuff that isn't yours.

4. Pedophilia is wrong, so don't do it.

5. Women and men are equals; afford each gender equal respect.

6. Do not lie, unless by lying you cause a greater injustice.

7. Don't engage each other in war over imaginary supernatural things, or to spread your version of Utopia to every culture. Save war as a last resort for retaining your freedoms, helping to maintain the freedoms of allies or preventing genocide.

8. Protect the defenseless from those who lack civility.

9. Be kind to animals even if you are eventually going to kill and eat them.

10. Genetic variances cause racial variation and sexual preference differences. Accept this as fact. Treat everyone as you would be treated.

Admittedly, I have several advantages over the original Ten Commandments authors in that I am not a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infantcidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. I'm just your humble, free-thinking Zootopian.