Moral code

I remember when in school, we were doing "ten commandments", rules for our school. My stinky, strange but utterly wise aleck schoolmate said you actually need only one rule: Don't do anything stupid. It was meant as a joke, perhaps, but it makes alot of sense and I have taken it as my own moral code.

It's a simple rule, and very easy to follow. The sentence is in present tense. But in the very present, nobody ever does anything stupid intentionally. Mistakes are noticed afterwards, you do what you do now because you think it's a good idea. It needs more morals behind it to work, of course. But personalities and even morals can change with age and experience and they're very subjective. The rule "don't do anything stupid" never needs to change, and can be applied to every human being, because you can't go against it.

The rule can be also understood in future-tense, in which case it warns to not to do anything stupid in the future. That shows the fallibility of all moral codes; what is always certain that sometimes in the future you will screw up something, somehow, no matter how careful you are.

A constant, global moral code that cannot be broken or is already broken and moot, depending how you view it. I like that.