Excellent essay!
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. I especially love this statement, and am finding it more and more difficult to do this in the US. Every day there are new laws passed restricting or regulating everyday behaviors, so that we all have to spend time verifying we haven't broken this law or that: the dogs have to be licensed and vaccinated, the taxes have to be paid well before time, the plumbing needs to be filed with the city, the kids need to go to the dentist or they can't attend school. It has gotten absurd the time I spend proving I've been a good citizen.

So the moral compass is difficult to find for oneself, because our legislators are forcing one on us that has no true north, but rather must point wherever the whims of the day in Congress point. Now they point toward removing privacy protections in the name of gun control. Very frightening in the US right now! Not as frightening as in Venezuela though, not yet.