[Anonymouse]

I'm no doctor, but "First, do no harm" works for me.

I don't steal. I confess I sometimes did as a kid (a common phase). Not because I might get caught (though it is a factor), but because I'm too proud. I might if I had to.

I would only kill if it was the last resort, i.e. a survival issue. I used to kill insects and spiders. I don't now. But I've always tried to be kind - a hedgehog (needed my gloves!) and a frog I moved out of traffic, a concussed squirrel I found in the road. True, greys are classed as vermin, but it was cute and I thought it deserved a chance, surviving being hit by traffic as it had. A vet checked it over, found it was okay (lucky little thing) and I released it the next day, feeling good.

I don't belittle people. Partly because I don't like it, partly because it isn't safe:

Those who took a perverse pleasure in deriding the unfortunate lost more than they knew and risked more than they imagined. No human being, no matter how insignificant, can safely be demeaned. Always there is present the danger of restraints snapping, of self-control giving way beneath the impact of one insult too many. Of pride and the need to be an individual bursting out in a tide of relentless fury.

- Dumarest Saga #15, "Spectrum Of A Forgotten Sun"

Case in point: me. As a kid I put up with verbal abuse for years. Then one day I literally saw red and clocked 'im one. Result? He never bothered me again. In fact he never bothered anyone again. Years later I heard he'd become a fairly decent bloke. Sometimes 'knock some sense into him' is more than a metaphor.

I don't cheat. Cheaters only cheat themselves. I knew better even as a kid. If I lose, I lose.

I don't lie, as a rule. Mum taught me that. Again, only if I have to. Unlike some, every detail on my CV is true and accurate.

I don't brag. I have a degree, it's true. But this does not make me a better person. Just better educated. 'Smart' and 'educated' are not synonymous. Case in point: the Government.

Um...I think that's it.