Trinity

[old man]

like I said, freedom is the freedom to choose

You may want to rephrase your little adage by saying "Freedom is the ability to choose." That gets rid of redundancy and circularity.

But, to you, that's all freedom is? Imagine yourself as a person of power, as someone that makes decisions for other people every day. In this instance, you can make infinite decisions, but you are bound by every one of them, for they affect you and many others in the grand scheme of things. Being bound is not being free, but you can continue with this delusion if you want.

The fact is, freedom may not be as liberal with you as you'd like to think it is, but we still make of it what we can. Simply having a choice does not make us free; what we do with that choice is what makes us free (but always to a defined extent).

Before any of us can have the ability to choose between good and evil we must first know the difference between good and evil. Freedom is the freedom to choose for those of us who can see.