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 These are like religions. While religions are effective in bringing attention to some important choices in specific situations, they are also dangerous. That is because they present those choices as universal, and by that make them rules.
The only things that I was not able to deny as universal yet are The Noble Eightfold Path, and the Three Poisons. Even these are universal only if not generalized, not elaborated, and not rephrased in any way. Even everything else in Buddhism is a religion and therefore dangerous.
Sorry, I do not mean to be negative, but can't keep it to myself about deep principal mistakes.