I am totally with you. However, for that approach to work, %90+ of people must use the same approach. If only a small % of people do what you do, you will only be harassed or jailed or worse.
There are people doing this called "sovereign man movement" and such, they are still jailed and charged and all that.
Those people are making claims and taking the burden of proof onto themselves; they are not engaged in the Socratic method. There's always strength in numbers, but there has also been several victories even without numbers:
http://marcstevens.net/successes