Yes, they might. In fact, most probably do. I mean, that's the most comfortable and facile interpretation.
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But are we lookiing for the most comfortable and facile interpretation? Or should we be looking behind the instructions and beyond our desires and self-focus (and may I say, rebellion) for the deeper meaning governing and instigating commandments, laws, and rules of our authorities?
The answer is yes, at least as it applies to the Almighty. His rules are few, and their violations self-punishing, but they require a certain amount of self-discipline to put into effect.
We don't tell a child not to play in the street because we want to test his allegiance to us. We do it because we understand something of the structure of the world in which we live, and we desire the child to be safe, happy and free from harm. Similarly, God understands the structure of the Cosmos that He has created, and imparts to human minds the few simple rules needed to ensure the safety and happiness of his free-willed offspring. The Law, in short, is not a burden placed upon the shoulders of Man, but a blessing, which, if followed, will lead to the best measure of happiness that can be attained on the earthly plane.
I think this is where the Judeo-Christian philosophy really manifests itself as of great worth, not only to Christians and Jews, but to the human race as a whole. The Law, as propounded in the Decalogue, is not merely a set of opinions that are "only religious," as today's secularists would like us to believe, but universal truths that apply to all societies, whether they choose to acknowledge the Almighty or not. No society can long survive which does not adhere to at least a reasonable subset of those commandments. If there is no God, He will have to be invented.