I was forty before I got married. During my single years, my girlfriends had one thing in common. They all told me: "You can't say that." Not because I was racist or being abusive, some would have said nothing about that, but because I was saying extremely controversial things, like "taxation is protection money cowards pay while pretending it's voluntary. Most people who claim they want to pay for govt. are lying to themselves. They would stop paying if they didn't have a gun to their head."
Taxation especially pissed me off. Even when I found an ally, like Larken who agreed with me, I lectured him on the fine points we disagreed on, e.g., his study of how the tax code/law was not being followed. I tried to tell him the law was a smoke screen. It didn't matter if you found a way to use it to protect your rights against violation by officials. They would violate you anyway, and get away with it.
I seldom remain silent and that trait I have had since my earliest memories. As a small child my favorite cartoon characters were 1. Daffy Duck. 2. Popeye. ("I am what I am, and that's all that I am.")