The 'right' to secede

Free Tibet! is a common slogan heard today from sympathetic Westerners asking China to let Tibet become an independent State. Plans to "make" the Kosovo region an independent State are well underway, despite protests from the region's current ruler, Serbia, and Russia. Taiwan wants independence from China, and has supporters from all over the world for that cause.

But how about taking this development to its logical conclusion:

But more profoundly, would a laissez-fairist recognize the right of a region of a country to secede from that country? Is it legitimate for West Ruitania to secede from Ruritania? If not, why not? And if so, then how can there be a logical stopping-point to the secession? May not a small district secede, and then a city, and then a borough of that city, and then a block, and then finally a particular individual? Once admit any right of secession whatever, and there is no logical stopping-point short of the right of individual secession, which logically entails anarchism, since then individuals may secede and patronize their own defense agencies, and the State has crumbled.

So yes indeed - free Tibet, Kosovo and Taiwan! But please, be logically consistent and don't try to stop anyone or anything from seceding from anything, even though States are more often than not unhappy about losing their taxpayers and citizens into the hands of freedom and liberty.