You are free to make a choice even when the end result is restricting future freedom (sword=death, illegal action=prison/death). So you can in any moment "be totally free" in virtually any society as long as concerns for freedom in future moments are irrelevant to you

> So you can in any moment "be totally free" in virtually any society as long as concerns for freedom in future moments are irrelevant to you

Okay so I am in prison. Am I still totally free in that moment?

Great point. Max available freedom has constraints based on your current situation. I'm not in prison but i don't have the freedom to walk on the moon

Yes, this is indeed my point.

What did you smoke, my friend? I really like your search engine, don't destroy it's image for me. Freedom is not strictly equal to technical possibility, it's not even the same word.

Aww come on, I don't want you to agree with me, I want us to have an interesting discussion about what freedom is and ultimately why we want it. It's worth while, trust me.

Did you not like the question so you avoided it by asking one of your own instead, or is something I'm not familiar with going on?

An action has an undesirable consequence, does this mean it is impossible to perform?

The question isn't whether we are free under all circumstances, but whether we are free now.

I agree that lack of freedom always exists simultaneously at some level, but at the specific level posed in the question are you free?

I'm note sure "freedom" is the same thing as "possible". If it where, only physicists would concerns themselves with its definition.

I think it more often means "permissible" or "practical".