I usually try to avoid that kind of words, cause they can only confuse or feed one’s misconceptions. they won’t clarify anything. but let’s try: when you say freedom means knowing the borders and making the decision to stay inside them, I think you’re disguising your opinion under a seemingly descriptive statement. I don’t really think freedom means doing this or that, or being here or there, but it is rather a subjective feeling, a felt-and-lived agency that you undergo as you engage in action, whatever this action may be. it is an experience of autonomy-in-action. the crucial point here is awareness of the state of your surroundings and of your possibilities inside them. knowing this, you can freely choose what to do. thus, those who wouldn’t be free are not those who are outside or inside certain limits -for that delimitation is always arbitrary-, but those who are being forced into a certain state, whether explicitly forced or kept there by ignorance.

now, I could say I agree when you say that breaching certain limits is harmful or pointless, but that is merely an opinion. if there is someone who consciously wants to transgress those limits I would not try to stop or force him to choose the same path you or I do. I don’t think the important thing is imposing ‘correct limits’, but clarifying the consequences of transgressing them, and at the same time allowing people to build a life they can live and feel as their own. cause I think it is more dangerous having people with repressed and destroyed projects living a forced life, no matter how ‘benevolent’ or ‘correct’, than having people living their lives differently than those around them. if you are satisfied with what you do, you won’t need to get in the path of others, and any exchange will be smooth, or at least human, even if there are wide differences. we don’t choose our life paths at random but in function of a play between the experiences we go through and the different possibilities open to face them. if this is too narrow, that frustration will come out in other, much more unpleasant, forms. this is how inhumanity begins.