Rules We Live By A review of the film The Decalogue: 6 to 10 (1988) Krzysztof Kieslowski (Director) Reviewed by Keith Oatley Any understanding of social psychology must take account of the rules of society and the inner rules of our genetics and upbringing. It was, perhaps, an insight of heads of societies long ago that, with the invention of writing, rules that were written down could be promulgated so that they might override individual inclinations. Among the oldest such laws are those of the Code of Hammurabi, a king of Babylon who ruled nearly 4,000 years ago. The code consisted of 282 laws written in stone in the Semitic language Akkadian (Richardson, 2000). Hebrew society derived many customs from Babylonian culture, and Moses, too, produced laws written in stone: the Ten Commandments (Decalogue), which have given rise