Myriam Ben Salem🦋
1 min readSep 22, 2021

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What if there is an effective way to effectively figure out, despite all our conditioning biases, what is right from wrong be merely making use of our critical thinking skills even before fully reconnecting with our original center.

Undoubtedly, it takes self-awareness, humility, honesty, openness, and bravery as well! This compass is the Universal Principles.

"Principles are self-evident and can easily be validated by any individual. It's almost as if these principles or natural laws are part of the human condition, part of the human consciousness, part of the human conscience. They seem to exist in all human beings, regardless of social conditioning and loyalty to them, even though they might be submerged or numbed by conditions or disloyalty." ~ Stephen Covey

A simple example of this could be analyzing “breastfeeding in public”. If I perceive it as taboo, am I violating any universal principle? The trivial answer is Yes.

Given nothing in breastfeeding is causing any harm to others (unless their caregivers conditioned them to feel so, in which case it is their problem!), I am violating the right of the mom to love her baby. I am violating the respect of her free will, and I am violating human dignity.

Result? It is not an opinion anymore and that we may respectfully agree to disagree. It is intrinsincly wrong. No room for doubt is left.

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Myriam Ben Salem🦋
Myriam Ben Salem🦋

Written by Myriam Ben Salem🦋

A fur Momma, animal lover & advocate, lifelong learner, storyteller, edutainer, and published author. I write personal stories and essays.

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