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What is freedom really? It would seem obvious that if you were in jail or detained or enslaved somehow that you are not free, and yet:

Stone walls do not a prison make,

Nor iron bars a cage;

Minds innocent and quiet take

That for an hermitage;

If I have freedom in my love,

And in my soul am free,

Angels alone that soar above

Enjoy such liberty.



Richard Lovelace 1618 - 1657

Also Buddhism would seem to argue that the very things that you would fight to enjoy if you were imprisoned are the very things that bind you. Is freedom, ultimately, just a state of mind. Is one man's freedom another man's prison? Is the Warden necessarily any more free than the prisoner? Is freedom something that you really can only define in a context of choosing something?

Anyway...

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