It's said that individuals really don't need a code or rules of conduct to survive but society definitely does. When those rules are codified and supposedly applied to everyone then these unofficial rules becomes known as laws. What's important for society to remain healthy and grow are these rules must be ones that the members can generally agree to follow (or at least are willing to put up with). Problems start creeping up when those laws aren’t applied or followed equally by everyone within a society. So what happens if someone had both the power and the means to operate outside of any society? In such a way that the rules really don’t cover? Would they be considered a bad guy or criminal? I guess that would depend on what kind of rules they decide to apply to themselves.

  Society’s Unofficial Rules

  

  
• The Force Rule - Might makes Right.


  
• The Money Rule - Whoever has the money makes the rules.


  
• The Golden Rule - Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.


  
• The Platinum Rule - Do unto others as they'd want to be done unto them.


  
• The Allow It Rule – You treat someone the way that they have treated others.


  
• The Chairman’s Rule – Work to help everyone to get the highest benefit.


  

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  Family’s Unofficial Rules

  

  
• Mom’s Rule - Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should do it.


  
• Dad’s Rule – Help others but only if it’s what they want, it’s what they need and is something they can’t do for themselves.


  
• Grandma’s Rule – Clean up your own messes and let everyone else clean up theirs, otherwise they will just keep making more mess.


  
• Grandpa’s Rule – You can’t help everyone, there are just too many of them and you’re badly outnumbered. Instead make an army by trying to cultivating people to help themselves and then each other.


  
• My Rule – First do what you have to do, then do what you should do, after that you can then do whatever the hell you want to do.


  

  But above all else remember what a famous pirate once said - “The code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules.” (Barbossa)