Seth King's Moral Delimma
Today, I was confronted with a moral dilemma. It is a long story, one that was months in the making. But I suppose it had to come to this, if for no other reason than to decisively demarcate the transition from obedience and the rewards it brings to that of resistance and all of its little inconveniences.
The story begins several months ago, shortly after I had converted to anarcho-capitalism. I had come to the conclusion that the state could never be abolished through obedience to it. I came to realize that all struggles for freedom throughout history involved great sacrifice and that ours would be no different. That lesson being learned, I began to mentally prepare myself for the opposition I would face in my quest for freedom.
First, I had to think of just how I would begin to disobey the state in ways I had never done before. Clearly, a rational approach would be to stop doing the things that I otherwise would not do as a free individual rather than doing things that I normally would not. The goal as a non-violent anarchist resistor is not to get arrested but instead to live free, and hopefully, be ignored by the state apparatchik. If not, then the state’s aggressions should be broadcast far and wide so as to highlight its true nature.
With this in mind, I determined my first act of civil-disobedience would be to let me driver’s license expire instead of renewing it all while continuing to drive.
Read the whole thing at the Daily Anarchist.
