New Aretaevian claim: the reason libertarians dominate so much of the contrarianosphere is because the fundamental question is not about topic but about obedience. Once you've rejected obedience on ANY serious level, rejecting obedience elsewhere is MUCH easier.
Self-employment: No obedience to a boss
- Self-employment: No obedience to a boss, but work anyhow
- Home-schooling: No obedience to the schools, but learning anyhow
- Unschooling: or to a parent-teacher...
- Science Contrarianism: No obedience to the priests of Harvard, but science anyhow
- Atheism: No obedience to the priests of the cloth, but ethics anyhow
- Libertarianism: No obedience to the state, but cooperation anyhow
- TCS: No obedience to parents, but living anyhow
Note, though, that paper libertarianism (I disagree that the state should do this) is different than acting as if the laws are illegitimate...which is also different from reckless disregard for the law (the bastards do have guns, and you should obey them when they are watching, just as much as you should obey a criminal who is pointing a gun at you).
What else belongs on the anti-obedience list?
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I consider myself a consistent libertarian, while adhereing to the admonition you have about doing as I'm told while the thugs-with-guns are watching. However, I am somewhat risk-averse (one may consider me "chicken" if one wishes), so I have no problem working for others. I'm a salesman, which gives me the conditional freedom to do my job as I see fit, as long as I'm productive.
We didn't home-school our daughter, but supplemented and/or corrected what she was told in public school, and she is still very much a self-teacher, very inquisitive, etc.
As far as other items for your list, while this is somewhat trivial, I couldn't care less about "peer pressure", and never did. Yes, I was not particularly popular in school, but I felt good about doing what I thought was right (either ethically or for my own good). Still do.
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