My freedom is measured by how free I feel and nothing else.
It's purely subjective.
So, if you thought that you were allowed to do anything, but you had no desire to leave an 8x8 concrete cell which you were sitting in, it would be the same as *actually* being allowed to do anything?
So it's true that freedom is just a state of mind...
Yes. I'm free until I discover that I'm not and only then might I realize I wasn't actually free.
And yes, freedom is just a state of mind, a feeling... Have you never felt free ?
Of course that's only one definition of freedom among many, all of them potentially valid depending on the context.
When it comes to government interference with peoples lives, it's not that I don't care, but I believe we all have the ability to migrate and should do so more often.
I move from a country to another like I move from a company to another. I just wish the control freaks in charge didn't make it so difficult (passports, visas, vaccines!, bank accounts, etc).