quotingPeople have an unlimited right to secession: to refuse to deal with the governance models of the area, community, et c. that they happen to reside in, as long as all actual, legitimate contractual restrictions they have are fulfilled and as long as they do not aggress (self defense is not aggression, of course). A government, defined as a monopolist of ultimate decision making over people in a given group or region, is necessarily opposed to some, if not all, secession attempts. This is one of the greatest strengths of the government in one respect, but is also its greatest weakness. A government lives or dies by secession.
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The game theory for secession indicates a favorable outcome for self-governing individuals when it is more politically profitable for the government to allow a particular secession to procede than to disallow it. This profitability is affected by many factors, including guns the seceding community has, perceived loss to the rest of the mob that the secession presents, and such. This is the greatest weakness of the state, especially a democratic one (short time horizon for temporary caretakers (presidents, congressmen, voters, etc., reduces the impact a loss of territory has on said caretaker's perception of the utility of thwarting said loss). This weakness is countered by a national myth, dehumanization of the "bad guys", and such and such nonsense. Even despite these countermeasures, if the secession is small enough, it becomes a trifling consideration in the eyes of the short- to medium-time-horizon assholes who bankroll the government. And this works especially well if the temporary caretaker has enough power compared to some entrenched shadow government dynasty of oligarchs (which would have a bit longer of a time horizon and therefore perceive any given secession as a bit greater of a threat and would be more likely to work hard to combat it).
Ironically, the mob rule of democracy is thwarted by a few peaceful, nonviolent, and well-comported rogue individuals and rogue communities going their own way in a diplomatic fashion, while the fiat clowns continue their destructive cannibalization of each other. These small movements continue gradually exiting out of the state system at a rate that the government either cannot defeat or is unwilling to risk money and resources to defeat, until eventually the state either gets taken over by people who officially recognize the right to ignore the government (which would no longer be a government at that point by definition), continues on as a smaller, stable corporate vehicle subsisting on the continual parasitism of people who choose the collectivist slave lifestyle, whither away into a pile of ash, or be reborn by tyrants and conquerors ... surrounded by anarchist communities and smaller states with lots of guns prepared for the attacks.
Kevin's Bacon on Nostr: Note that some forms of secession can also take place distributed throughout the ...
Note that some forms of secession can also take place distributed throughout the government region, like in cyberspace. Note also that digital governments spanning regions of cyberspace may be constructed in the future as well.