Freedom is not so much a right or a privilege as much it is a need, we need freedom the same way we need water, food or the company of other human beings. When you deprive people of one of any of their needs including freedom they get physical and mental sickness. So rebellion it is part of your self preservation instincts, you could consider it an act of self defense that protects your need of autonomy even when this includes the use of force.
The political argument about regulation and the amount of freedom we should all have, to "protect" us is like arguing that it is better to keep people in a constant state of semi starvation out of the fear to don't get fat. Not only this will cause rebellion but it will lead to people trying to cheat the system, the creation of a black market and many other negative side effects. If you want people to don't get fat you have to teach them how to eat healthy, the same is valid about violence if we are going to have a reduction in violence we have to learn how to be happy.
Happiness is the opposite of violence because when you are happy you don't want much of anything else you don't already have so you won't feel like hurting anybody.
Then the purpose of the regulations are not so much to provide effective strategies to your needs as much as to further control and confuse you that the control is necessary for a functional society, and confusion like this is going to lead to a constant cycle of rebellion. Where majority of the people accept the regulation because they are confused and a small minority that waked up and can see things clearly are going to be in opposition and form rebellion.
Rebellion is a short term strategy the purpose of rebellion is to demonstrate to the person that it is trying to control you that you are not willing to do his beading. The best way to do this is to do the exact opposite of what the person who is attempting to control you. Because the person that is attempting the control is not very balanced and mentally healthy you, doing the opposite of what is required from you for one of this person is going to push you in to the other extreme of the spectrum. The opposite of the unbalance is unbalance, imagine one of those old scales that requires weights, if you have a small weight on one of the taller and another bigger weight on the other taller the scale is going to be unbalanced, if you just change the weights between them you are still in a place of imbalance. You are not practicing any virtues, you are still practicing vices just the opposite of the vices of the person that attempted to control you, like this regardless the fact that you are fighting suppression and you are making an effort to better your life you are still unbalanced unhappy and sick.
Changing yourself or the world it is a constructive process not a destructive one, the long term strategy of chance has to be about finding alternatives or creating alternatives not rebellion. It is true the cultivation of virtues that one can achieve happiness, The way Aristotle defined virtues as the point between deficiency and excess. Control it is meant to create deficiency in the life of the person that is being controlled while rebellion is a form of excess.
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