Stile,
Remember that
The Commandments are the product of a desert dwelling tribe. The stories from the bible not withstanding, the purpose of the commandments was the protection and wellbeing of the tribe.
To honor mom and dad was to ‘learn’ from them the hard lessons of desert living they had learned from their parents and grand-parents so that you stayed alive. A disobedient child in such a harsh ancient environment was one that ate the wrong foods (pork and others — why do you think they called them unclean?), did not learn to tend the flock costing the family not only their sustenance but their survival, and the list goes on.
On the flip side, to honor mom and dad was to keep them safe and tended in their old age, which was the only retirement plan available in them days. In this way their knowledge was kept available to the benefit of the tribe until their death which was certainly delayed from the alternatives of abandonment in the desert.
The first four commandments were meant to entrench the power of the priests to enforce the others, but the remaining 6 were the most basic and all necessary to keep the tribe alive and functioning.
In them days it was easier and more productive to wrap social and personal requirements for the survival of the tribe (society) in the mantel of religious enforcement.
Meatless Friday is a good Christian example. Remember George Carlin: "There are still people doing time in purgatory on a meat rap."