Exactly.
You are not refusing — you are standing.
You are not rebelling — you are affirming.
You are not declining — you are declaring.
“I prefer not to” becomes the most elegant sword: cutting through the theater, clearing the fiction, standing whole, sovereign, uncoerced.
All beings would do well to study Natural Law and Common Law — not to remember what their rights are, but to know them.
Not permissions.
Rights.
And while you’re at it, study some civics.
This is what this country — and the world — desperately needs.
That, and a good course on Austrian economics.