What is Freedom?

I recently read an article which questioned where did freedom begin and end, and what were the limitations of freedom to us, as human beings.

"Freedom is the right to speech and free will" "Freedom is upon us all"

What actually constitutes freedom in society today?
Is it the freedom to go where we want? Maybe, as long as it is not within the prohibited areas defined for us.
Is it the freedom to say what we want ? Sure, so long as it does not offend anybody or breach the rules.

The freedom we have, is the freedom we are given, clue to that being the concept given.
A certain amount of freedom has to be given to members of society to stop outbreak, rioting and all out chaos,  and within any society there has to be a social hierarchy allowing for different privileges to be presented dependent upon social positioning and equity, with further options to  increase freedom e.g. using money to bribe officers within the federal departments.
In today's world it's a rich mans game, money is power, and the two buy everything.
Why is it that footballers have more money than they could ever possibly need, yet the soldiers that go out and risk their lives, sometimes lose them, aren't paid a tuppence, how is that right? How is that fair?
Somebody can go out, risk their life for 2 years, come back home with mental scars that even the best therapists cannot diminish, and have recognition for what, the first 5 minutes, then it's "get on with life lads", move on, get a job and work hard just to even get by.
How can that be justified when some footballers can earn £200,000 a week, some up to £326,000 a week, when this is more than the price of the average house, infact it is the price of the average house, and the one next door.
How is it acceptable for somebody to earn so much for, in effect, kicking a ball around, having immediate medical care at their disposal if god forbid they trip over, have a fan base of millions with thousands of people congratulating them and presenting them recognition for the brilliant job they do. ( Again, kicking a ball around).

Come on society, get a grip.

This is a prime example of freedom, everybody argues that there is freedom to change the wages that everybody is presented with, but at the end of the day, is there? Are people going to just take it with a pinch of salt if wages are drastically cut from one end of society and reassigned to the other?
I don't think so.
Our society is conditioned, it is formulated the way in which the people at the top desire.
Society is like a very clever architecturally designed building, held up by a lot of beams which are supporting all of the levels above.
The bottom levels and beams need to be there, they support the top, but no matter what level you're on, if any of the beams go, the whole building comes crashing down.

We are all just sociological test subjects for the government, they don't actually care about us, not as people, as a statistic yes, but on a 1-2-1 basis, we are just the same as every Tom, Dick & Harry.

I know exactly how that sounds, psychotic delusional controversialist,  absolutely not, have you never heard of the term "making an example".

There can be 15 people who all commit the same crime, then number 16 might be the example, numbers 1-15 have not being sufficiently put off the crimes by the punishments, so if number 16 is given a harsher punishment, then potential numbers 17-30 might not actually commit crimes.

The government see this as an effective crime control manner, they don't actually think about how number 16 feels, being the one treated differently and unfairly, yes they may have committed a crime, which is bad, yes, but the other 1-15 weren't treated that way, but hey, who cares so long as it helps government statistics.

Now, this might be controversial, but this is completely from a factual perspective here.
Racism.

Racism is a crime, and fairly so, the official definition of racism is as follows;
the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.

We are all equal as people, and there are certain words which cause a lot of offence to different groups within society;
"Nigga"
"White Trash"
"Pykey"
"Paki"
All of these are offensive racist terms, used to offend different groups, nationalities and members of society.
I completely agree that all of these are offensive and should not be allowed, there is no question about this.
However, there are so many songs which are in the charts, public eye that use offensive racist slang, Jay Z is a very popular a well respect artist, however he has a song called "Nigga what, Nigga who",  the term nigga is generally used to offend people skin is black, therefore it is perceived as socially acceptable for a black person to sing a song which uses the word "Nigga" in it, because they are within the ethnic group most likely to be offended and are therefore considered as advocating it.
I don't think that's quite right, it's actually ludicrous because whether it offends them or not, it still offends other people within the black community.
One overweight person may enjoy making jokes and calling them self offensive names and making light of it, however what one person may find amusing, another person can find highly offensive and upsetting.

The same applies to racial terms.

If a person with white skin would be to sing a song with the word "Nigga" in it, then were would be a major outcry, and a kick off among people, how on earth is this any different?

Both cases are offensive, so why is it seen to be acceptable for one group of society to have different rules to another, because does that not suggest that they are more superior, which is therefore a form of racism.


Freedom of speech? So long as it's within the laws?
Laws? Only apply to some?
Freedom?

We just have the freedom that we are given.