What is your set of mental rules that you live by? Or at least try to?

I try to respect people's privacy, people's property, and people's right to live their lives as they choose. I try not to judge, and in cases where I'm unable to avoid "registering" judgment (sometimes we're unavoidably affected by our upbringing) I try not to act on that judgment if it's inappropriate to do so. And I expect that same treatment from others.

My three rules.

 

1) treat others as I wish to be treated.

2) be a better person today than yesterday..

3) Always find the positive aspects within yourself and others

rational humanism with a tinge of deontological ethics

Unfortunately I work in a corporation so I live by the laws of Robotics:

 

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.^[1]