This is the real paradox.
Well I was thinking more about a situation where it’s a kind of a situation like in the film Heavenly Creatures about the Parker-Hulme murders in New Zealand where they said Only the best people against all obstacles in the pursuit of happiness. And where Pauline says things about her mother - that if she were to die it would solve the problem of them being together. Any other information here? Any different ways of dealing with something like this?
Exactly. OP has defined “freedom” to mean
(a) not in prison (one of the conventional definitions);
(b) an emotional release only achieved by inflicting revenge (an unconventional one).
If you use the same word to label two different things that cannot both be achieved under the specified conditions, that’s not a paradox, it’s just something that’s not possible.
Of course, in the real world we can dispute that (b) is correct, but that’s a separate matter.
ETA: somehow I missed Ravenman’s post, where this has already been stated better.
Fallacy of equivocation, I had forgotten the term, thanks.