Sheep
Do you not expect to have your rights taken away if you take no interest in enforcing them? People seem to think that being a citizen involves being self-obsessed and passive. Nobody wants to get their fat asses up from in front of the Tv and intimidate the government. The fact is that apathy and deliberate ignorance are usually rewarded with rape and/or robbery.
While I hate using slavery as a positive example of anything, on the plantation, if you did not not get the slaves to fear you, you would have a rebellion on your hands pretty quickly. What you need to figure out is who you are, the slave or the slave-owner, and act accordingly.