Is "freedom" just another word for "nothing left to lose?"

For me and Bobby McGee?

The most insidious threat to freedom are good men, well-meaning, but lacking wisdom.

Only if you're busted flat in Baton Rouge

Sometimes it means just that. When it doesn't matter what you do, that there is risk in every direction, you can feel free to take whatever action you choose. That's freedom. The exception would be to sit and quiver, waiting for fate to take its course. (That's not freedom: that's capitulation.)

I was given three months notice in 1991, the proviso being that I train the staff to do my job. I didn't mind that because I knew they no longer needed me, so I agreed. But with a month to go the boss went to far and gave me a directive I refused to accept. He said, "I can finish you up today if I want." And I said, "Go for it." He backed off. When you're under sentence of death, no threat has any teeth.

Yeah ... like "Divorce."  :)

It could be seen that way, I suppose. But that would give a negative, defeating connotation to the word Freedom.
Like saying, " Isnt fatherhood just another word for eighteen years of servitude?"
I like to see Freedom as the highest goal of any evolved civilization.
Freedom from ignorance and bondage and need.

Freedom is not binding someone,letting them have space, if you try to hold on to someone tightly then just like a handful of sand held tightly in your hand slips away so also the person will leave sooner or later. Freedom is letting go....knowing that it will always be yours...;))

The first 4 chord song I learned.

Only if we don't dare to give, and/or take our freedom before we got nothing to lose. Hmm.