[goodsamaritan]

Ok, it is not the secession itself that I am saying is immoral. The subsequent founding of another state is what was immoral. Again, if the secessionists dissolved the government entirely, I would have no problem with it.

Your analogy of the gym membership is flawed because the secessionists never asked the citizens of their own state whether they wanted to continue to be a part of the state. Following your analogy, they voluntarily withdrew from the gym, but then *forced* people to join a "better" gym.

The only people who were *voluntarily* a part of anything were those who ratified the constitution back in the 1780s.