Freedom is objective to me. Everything is objective to me.

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Interesting. So how you feel about it is irrelevant?

Serious question - not a gotcha.

I try not to put a lot of emphasis on my feelings.

I read some works from a chap named Isiah Berlin, and went back to it several times.

It shifted how I think about freedoms, and the objectivity bit. I once would have said the same thing. Terribly complex, and fraught with danger.

Many ills in the world were sewn by people who believed to their core that what they deemed freedom, was universal.

"To me"

Touche

Is your definition more objective than a basket of measurable metrics?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices

Yes.

Lol...so the debate is then settled.

By your personal highly selective definition, America is the freest place on earth.

I agree.