1) i love how credulous this article is. Even people who have only ever played the Bioshock games, and have never thought about anything else can see beyond the 9th grade level ethics/civics necessary to see what the problems with sea-steading are.

2) Are we seriously citing the freedom ship of all things as an example of what the future of sea steading might be like? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2514936/The-i...

Cities are complicated. Cruise ships are complicated. (Anybody remember http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/11/travel/cruise-ship-fire/ ?) I would looooove to hear someone explain what the logistics and supply chain management necessary to run a city-sized cruise ship would have to look like (note, none of these sea-steading articles ever discuss this question). And, sorry just to harp on the Bioshock thing again, but seriously: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/28/article-2514936-19... and http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130412063520/bioshock/i...

3) If you have enough money to sea-stead, or get yourself onto a hypothetical freedom ship... is paying your taxes and following a country's laws really so onerous that you would abandon your family and social network in order to move out onto the ocean onto platforms with experimental levels of quality & sustainability? (I mean, maybe you're an engineering nerd and you think it'd be awesome to live out on the water. But in what way does that dove-tail with the political aspirations of sea-steading? Why not just get yourself a boat if you've got that much money?)