But what you say is true of any people, the trick is getting them to “spontangeously decide”. Right now, pretend there was a small town with 1000 people in it anywhere in the world who suddenly just decided with all of their heart and soul that they were a sovereign nation, what could anyone REALLY do to stop them ? I…

Depends.

Unfortunately every piece of real estate on the planet earth is “owned” (claimed) by a sovereign nation, so you would have to find a dictator somewhere who would “sell” you land, and relinquish its countries claims to it. Even that is probably not going to stand once the dictator is overthrown by the next one, they’ll…

Bringing up Maritime law is a smart way to look at it. If you have a sailboat, for example, you don’t get permission to go anywhere, but you do have to get a Zarpa which is essentially a document saying where you left from and when. The reason you need a Zarpa is so when you show up somewhere else you can prove where…

If most people thought like this there wouldn’t be such a thing as a small business, because people would just walk around all day trying to figure out who to get permission from.

This is why I’m a Libertarian, because “normal people” just don’t get it.