When the head of state says that something is "not an option", that's not just a friendly suggestion. And when he frames the issue in terms of you "letting dow

When the head of state says that something is "not an option", that's not just a friendly suggestion. And when he frames the issue in terms of you "letting down your country", it makes me feel like he thinks my life belongs to the country, as opposed to myself. And by the way, I did drop out of high school, at 15, and was threatened with things that were fairly similar in character to jail. So I don't think it's not credible that the penalties could very well be jail time. We live in an era which many people seem to see as post-historical -- that is, we've found all the answers and we know the right way for people to live their lives, so we no longer need to protect the rights of individuals to live weird lifestyles, since doing so just constitutes a denial of the manifestly correct path.