People have been sharing the simple rules everyone should follow that would make the world a better place – 17 commandments that need to become law

Laws and social contracts are doing a semi-decent job of keeping society in check, but as with everything there’s always room for improvement.

At some point though everyone has thought up a rule that would improve the overall quality of life considerably. They don’t have to be big sweeping changes either, sometimes even the smallest of ideas can lead to big results.

Reddit user Electrical-Candy7252 clearly felt the same, as they turned to r/AskReddit to pose this burning question:

‘If you could pass one single, simple rule that all 8 billion humans had to follow to make the world less annoying, what would it be?’

Even one of these top replies being implemented would make society significantly better…

1.
‘Be excellent to each other.’
-ReasonAndChocolate

2.
‘Be okay with being wrong.’
-DustyCroppin

3.
‘Use the turn signal when driving………..’
-DotAffectionate87

4.
‘Have an indoor voice. We had dinner at a restaurant the other day, it wasn’t overly busy. This guy 25ft away on his phone, talking so loud as if he was in a metal stamping plant. He had 3 other people at the table with him. My wife and I struggled to have a normal volume conversation at the table.’
-57Laxdad

5.
‘No discriminating against people for things they can’t control’
-9706uzim

6.
‘Walk through a grocery store like you are driving on the road. Stay to the right, don’t stop in the middle of the road, wait to turn, etc.’
-Medium-Escape4072

7.
‘like they can’t refuse to follow even if they want to?

‘everybody’s washing their hands properly after using the restroom from now on or is otherwise in a situation where they should really just wash their damn hands’
-trunks111

8.
‘No more ragebaiting. You’ll be surprised by how peaceful things can be if we simply don’t goad each other for the fun of it’
-my108centsss

9.
‘Act for the good of the global community. Greed is ruining humanity. If people could not be greedy we’d be so much better off.’
-TempAcc0164