For whatever reason, two weeks ago I got the urge to reread Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land with an eye toward his motivations for writing it. I thought that perhaps I had reached a point

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything