~*~* Evil Moustache-Twirling Capitalist *~*~

I think an important principle for any libertarian to recognize and practice is that you are only as free as you allow yourself to be free. I mean, we all talk about liberty and freedom as some sort of abstract principles. But what good is any of it if you don’t embody that in your personal lifestyle, in your daily choices and actions? Let’s take drug laws, for example (one that is most poignant to my own lifestyle). Okay, so drugs are illegal. Sure, that sucks. Especially if you get caught with them/using them, then it really sucks. But you know what? That law can only control you if you choose to obey it. Don’t like the law? Then don’t follow it!

Sure, with drugs this might seem blatantly obvious. But what about other kinds of ridiculous laws? Taxes, for example? Don’t like the income tax? Then don’t pay it! Yeah you might get audited, but that’s what money laundering is for right? Don’t like zoning laws? Build your shit anyways! Don’t care much for the local building codes? Ignore them to your hearts desire! Think FDA regulations preventing the sale of raw milk are ridiculous? Drink and sell it anyways!

Certainly you should be catching onto my point by now. My point is that a law is only effective when people comply with it. Breaking laws you find unjust is a small step you can take to liberate yourself. Ideally we’d all like to liberate society as a whole, but you can’t ever hope to do that without first liberating yourself from oppression that you largely impose on yourself. What’s the point of advocating liberty if you let yourself be chained down by the shackles of the state?

I guess the tl;dr version of this post is that who gives a fuck what the law says, who cares what the government says you can and cannot do. Just live your life the way you see fit and ignore the laws. Live free or die.