While it's true that "[some] identify freedom with license, the freedom to act on impulse", I never have. I simply define freedom as the absence of force or its immediate threat. That's always a good place to start, but as the author rightly observes, it takes discipline to use freedom effectively.
Hey, fexl. I'm the author of the post. Thanks for the comment. Yeah, your comments reminds me of one of my Humanities Professors' assertions --that Western Philosophy for the past 500 years has been a dialogue and refinement of the definition of freedom.