Is anyone really free?

Unless you have an endless income and no family to depend on you, then you aren't really free. My definition of being free is the ability to go where you wish and do what you like without worrying about work, bills, mortgages and other people.

With that kind of life, only aging, illness and death would be your constraints. Many would find it very lonely, though.

Intellectual capacity is another limiter; one must be clever to survive on their own.
 
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Freedom's one of those things that always turns into a granular and relative measure. More is generally better if the people being given that freedom can handle it, and THAT'S the stickiest question.

Absolute freedom is a myth until we become star-children a la Clarke, however. You'll always be a slave to your own biological constraints, and you can only push the envelope so far.
 
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Does humanity even deserve freedom?

Lol no. It's adorable that you chimps even believe that you're free.

The human brain is quite literally addicted to tyranny. It feels good to place responsibility in the hands of another. It feels good to be told what to do. All of the guns and constitutions on Earth are never going to change the reality that you're just some shitty gorilla who is preprogrammed by nature to be a little bitch.
 
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The only way to be free is to self governed, and unless you go completely off the grid thats impossible. You can achieve partial freedom moving to a place with less censorship, but even then its never truly free.
 
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Why do you believe you are free? Not trying to be rude, just would like to hear your viewpoint.
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You Know freedom or what it really means to BE FREE when you have your 1st "I am" moment (wich could also be called enlightenment, salvation, self realization...) for the duration of that moment you are FREE and you also Know the difference between Being that and thinking that you are. That is the only way to experience real Freedom at least as much as I know.
 
Everyone is conditioned from birth to fit the social scene they arrive in, by action and thought both. The very language you think in alters the terms of your thoughts with the weight of your entire culture. True freedom could only be ferality, I suspect.
 
Everyone is perfectly free. You have perfect and absolute control over your own actions, and over your own choices.
Everything you do, you do because you choose to do it.
 
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Yes, we all are free, in the stoic sense of freedom. At any moment, you could end any suffering. Not trying to be edgy, but certainly even in a prison cell one can be free. One must always be mentally free and unworried, or else life is going to be a long, long miserable affair.
 
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