Consider the following argument : "Freedom is the ability to do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it. But none of us living on an equal footing with others in society can be afforded that ability: To exercise that ability is to impede the ability of others to exercise that same ability, and so we cannot all exercise that ability. You cannot have an ability that you cannot exercise, so we cannot all have that ability. But if we live on equal footing, then either we all have the ability or none of us do. Therefore, none of us can have the ability to do whatever we want to do whenever we want to do it. And therefore, none of us is free." One way to refute this argument would be to show that