D'Anon - back 2 the filter

Anon quoted Mr. Mills as saying that (in part)

...Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

To which I wrote the following back:

Nice quote Anon. Of course though it can be argued simply that the Freedom so described can still be affected by deterministic mental/physical environments. But on 2nd glance it isn't so easy...

But upon reflection my point doesn't cover one word. One simple word that I overlooked. - chance - What I wrote still makes sense but Mills captured it by saying it was only a chance that anyone person would use that freedom. We've all been given it and can't argue that we have it.

His next important word is "choices." These are limited to us depending on where we live, grew up, social conditioning, yadda-yadda. So freedom is not the domain of choosing between the choices presented but in the formulation of our choices is the chance for freedom.

Thoughts? I just sorta rambled this one out here. Will post it and then see what I think upon later reflection.