How is freedom measured?

Question

How many degrees of freedom (not mathematical) can we measure? I guess, in order to measure anything, you have to define it first, so how do we define freedom so that we can measure it (a very general definition would be nice here)?

Answer 1

I myself describe freedom as infinite.  You always have freedom.  And it can't be taken away.  I call it infinite because that is the only way to describe something of this magnitude.

~Joe

Answer 2

Freedom is often measured by a passport, It was for my parents who came to this country in 1938 when war broke out in Europe. I suppose the measurement of creation when life begins, at least for me I was born here because of their need for freedom. I saw a film once called the Incredible Lightness of Being, about people who made decisions about staying or leaving Czechoslovakia before the Russians came, and I think it may be true that freedom cannot be measured.

Answer 3

Financial freedom is measured by money in your bank.

Answer 4

Measuring anything sets limits to it, as does labeling, sorting, classifying, separating, etc.  Certainly "de"fining operates the same way...it is a way of reducing the infinite to the finite, the unknowable to the falsely known...smaller bites for agreeable consumption.  Yet "this" is not THAT, but functions as a pointing finger only.  What is the purpose of measuring or defining?  For communication?  For relationship?  For understanding?  Better, perhaps, to merge without thoughts into being one with THAT without attempting to compartmentalize/fragment/reduce into concepts that which cannot be conceptualized.  Then again, consider the source (i am Sirius) and whether i should practice what i preach.  

i am Sirius