Q.What is meant by social constraints? Are constraints of any kind necessary for enjoying freedom?

Social constraints are the restrictions a society, its authorities or its own social structures place on an individual's choices and actions — for example, laws, social rules, or unequal structures like caste. …

Social constraints can be understood as restrictions on an individual's freedom that come from outside the individual — from other people, from laws and government, or from the very structure of a society, such as its caste system or the economic inequality between its rich and poor. They are distinct from purely personal limits, since they are imposed, directly or indirectly, by other members of society or by social/political authority.

Some constraints of this kind are genuinely necessary. We cannot live in a world with no constraints at all, since people inevitably differ in their ideas, opinions and ambitions, and compete for scarce resources — disagreements over this can range from minor quarrels to serious conflict over land, beliefs, or what a film should say. Every society needs some mechanism to control violence and settle such disputes, so that people can live with a genuine minimum of constraint rather than descending into open conflict. Even building a largely constraint-free society itself requires at least the willingness to respect differences of view — which is itself a kind of self-imposed constraint. …