This post reminded me of the phrase: "Your freedom ends where mine begins".

Those are my personal thoughts:

I think there's way too many people who don't/can't even realize their freedom is being trampled in any way, or worse, decide to stay caged while being well aware of the situation with some weird excuse.

What can I do to fix that? Probably nothing. My goal in life is not to change people or the world, but to live a leisure life with no trouble.

What I see as a definition of "lack of freedom" is simply anything others can do for their own personal gain, usually when seeking money, fame or control. If you try to think of some ways to obtain something, even with the most peaceful approach and then, you just push it a bit, you should see a pattern.

As for what I consider as a programmed behavior in our DNA, there's, probably among many others, the act of "lying".

It was also observed in other primates, when their social structure tends to break easily, the individual will rely on lying to have a better chance of survival. Why tell others where the food is if I might split from them the next day? (Example taken from an experiment done on monkeys from a video I've seen long ago).

My way of doing things is simply: keeping a distance from anything that can harm me, help others if I'm able to and never expect anything from anyone. With this, I can coexist with others, anything else must be done by and for myself alone, including the act of gaining freedom.

If you're aware of what in your life is being taken over by others, then you should be "free" to fix it yourself.

Also, taking decisions for other individuals of what freedom is and how to act can also be seen as a way of taking control of others, like how the government deceives or the mafia suppresses other people for their own gains.