Free Will, Determinism, Compatiblism, & Civil Liberty

I hold what's called a compatibilist position on free will and determinism, causal determinism. That means the experience of free will and determinism can be reconciled. This position is called soft determinism. Determinism isn't fatalism, that the future is preordained, just that the present is determined by the past, every effect has a cause. I don't think we're free in the libertarian sense of making autonomous decisions independent of heredity, environment, and past actions. Our actions occur under causality like anything else in the universe we can talk about. I don't take quantum weirdness to mean freedom, just that there is such a thing as probability in the universe. Indeterminism doesn't mean freedom as without a meaningful order of events it isn't possible to plan actions and we aren't free but subject to the arbitrary whim of nature. Freedom means an alternative action can be taken. It is hypothetical, I could have chosen otherwise. Our actions are contingent not necessary, like our very existence. Necessity is logical-mathematical and not factual in nature. Essentially, freedom means we resist changes to our state of motion. Inertia and conservation of our state of matter. By resisting chemical homogeneity with the environment (definition of organism) we are in a way free. An amoeba can be free. Freedom increases with complexity. This means freedom is negative, the absence of impediment to bodily motion, which is Thomas Hobbes' definition. In the social sense freedom is absence of coercion by another agent. I am not free if I am put in irons, though in the political sense I am free if a log falls and traps me underneath since no agent did that to me. This is sort of Friedrich Hayek's conception.