What's freedom?

The Libertarians would argue even someone starving to death, dying of thirst, etc is an indication of true freedom. I'm not kidding! I posed the question to a Libertarian colleague one day of the mentally ill person in the street with noone to take care of him/her but charity, and they're all "booked up". I asked this colleague if it's OK to just let this person die there in the middle of the street instead of setting up a catchall government program to make sure this person is cared for. HE HAD NO ANSWER! How impossibly cruel and uncivilized!

It may be freedom to my colleague, this mentally ill person getting run over, starving to death, or dying of thirst. I bet if you asked this mentally ill person, he/she would disagree, especially if they didn't want to die.

So do I. This isn't freedom. This isn't civility. Civility is basic and is nonnegotiable to me.