Anarchist question from a 15 year old (lemmy.ml)

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Basically, my question involves to what extent I should obey my parents as an anarchist. I'm breaking their trust right now by writing this. Basically, in a long series of events that's lasted my entire life, they've come to think that I'm obsessed with going on the computer, and recently with computer privacy and security. They only let me on the computer for school related purposes. Should I do what they say? I feel an anarchist might have a different answer about this. I feel like we've just been getting along so well lately, and we would all cry if they found out I broke their trust, but, on the other hand, child liberation? I'm really confused.

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[-] ksynwa@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 years ago

Not an anarchist but you can't hope to achieve any sort of liberation unless you are self-sufficient financially or at least are living on your own for example for something like college/university. Best you can do is talk to them and negotiate for some recreational time on the computer or, if worse comes to worst keep it doing in secret like right now but this always runs the risk of being found out so you need to assess this option carefully according to your situation.

[-] Provinto@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 years ago

I'm an anarchist and I pretty much agree. I think that it's important to try to understand where your parents are coming from and why it is, exactly, they are attempting to forbid you from accessing a computer and what kind of behavior they think they're trying to deter.

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