What does "Freedom" Mean to You?

[Antilon]

For most people, "freedom" means the right to vote for a representative in government. For some people, "freedom" means to live a life without worry. For others, "freedom" is an escape from slavery. And for that small minority, "freedom" is a world without government. So what does "freedom" mean to you?

"Freedom" to me is the ability to make choices and to accept responsibility for those choices.

[Scarsaw]

To me, freedom means a right to believe and do what I want without any discrimination from law, as long as it doesn't infringe on the rights and freedoms of others (including animals).

[Marxist Motherland]

Freedom is danger, it is weakness!

[Sarkhaan]

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

[Pax Ordo]

freedom to me is much like the idea of freedom to the author of the thread. however freedom to me can be summed up in two guidelines 1) live in harmony with all around you 2) do not impose yourself upon any persons freedom of choice when it comes to their own person.

[The South Islands]

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

Freedom is not having to hear sucky 60s songs.

[New Limacon]

Freedom is danger, it is weakness!

Erm, care to elaborate?

To me, freedom is the allowance to do what is right without constriction.

[Barbie Ana]

meh..
free from discrimination from all kinds.
Just want to be free from what people think or believe about my skin color, eyes and accent

[Tubbsalot]

free⋅dom  /ˈfridəm/ [free-duhm] –noun
1. the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint: He won his freedom after a retrial.
2. exemption from external control, interference, regulation, etc.
3. the power to determine action without restraint.
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[Sarkhaan]

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

Freedom is not having to hear sucky 60s songs.

Freedom is your mom.

[The South Islands]

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

Freedom is not having to hear sucky 60s songs.

Freedom is your mom.

Oh yeah, well freedom is your grandma.

[Sarkhaan]

Oh yeah, well freedom is your grandma.

...you bitch.

[Tranquilizer Cyborgs]

Freedom is that thing which we possess most when we realize that we have none.

[Grave_n_idle]

Freedom is knowing that all we have to do now, is take these lies and make them true, somehow.

Freedom is knowing that all we have to see, is that I dont belong to you - and you dont belong to me.

Freedom is when you've gotta give for what you take.

[Copiosa Scotia]

Freedom is a bird you cannot chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaange

[DrunkenDove]

Freedom to me is an irritating buzz-word used by politicians who want to get re-elected.

[Ravea]

I don't know what it is, but I know it costs a Buck o' five.

[Call to power]

the ability to choose between chocolate and strawberry ice cream (or maybe a little of both if your a disgusting pervert)

so freedom is to do what you choose to do I guess...or is that liberty

[Antilon]

the ability to choose between chocolate and strawberry ice cream (or maybe a little of both if your a disgusting pervert)

so freedom is to do what you choose to do I guess...or is that liberty

doesn't liberty = freedom?

[Dolbri]

Freedom is a tool, a means to an end. I don't care much about freedom in itself.

[Antilon]

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

I know this phrase, but I have trouble understanding it. Does nothing left to lose mean that a person stops caring about anything and everything?

[Conserative Morality]

Freedom is being allowed to express myself, to protest, to think, to create, without any group or person having the legal right to stop me from doing so. If this means expressing my like/dislike of the government, so be it. If it means creating a pro-government book, so be it. If it means creating a device that will supersede Oil as a power source, so be it.

[Galloism]

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

I know this phrase, but I have trouble understanding it. Does nothing left to lose mean that a person stops caring about anything and everything?

The basic idea is, if you have something you care about, it can always be used against you to reduce your freedom. Only once you have nothing are you truly free to do whatever you want, and no one can hold anything over on you.

[Buffett and Colbert]

Freedom is the word that Republican's can't make a speech without using it fifty times.

[Conserative Morality]

Freedom is the word that Republican's can't make a speech without using it fifty times.

And get the meaning wrong every time.