Many of those that profess the loudest of the importance and the value of freedom, really don't know what freedom at its core, actually encompasses, means and signifies. For those, that believe that ultimate freedom, is the freedom to do whatever that a given person so desires to do, limited only by not infringing upon that same concept of freedom of another, they will find themselves to understand, sooner or later, that this is foundationally wrong. That is to say, true freedom is not doing whatever a given person so desires to do, as if this is the highest possible calling of humankind, but rather true freedom first involves the comprehension that by being gifted by our Creator with free will and thereby the freedom of thought and movement, that therefore our abiding desire of being granted thus with this gift, is not to thereby to abuse it in self-aggrandizement, or ego fulfillment, but rather to control it for our own good, and for the good of all those that we interact with.
Of course, as in many a thing, when we are children, we are going to have a strong tendency to indulge upon great gifts in childish ways, and thereby to push our freedom in ways and manners that test the waters of the value of doing whatever that is what we so are please to do, and occasionally suffering the full consequences so of. The point, though, of such an exercise, is to develop our mind and our being in such a manner that when we do become an adult, that we understand the corresponding responsibility so thrust upon us, and those that have learned their lessons well, are going to understand the nuances and obligations that we have to that which provides us with a power that could be used for that which is right, or for what which is wrong.
So then, our freedom signifies that we are not automatons, that we are indeed, freely able to be that which we so desire to be, subject to those others that are also freely able to act upon their desires, limited only by the skill-set each has developed, of which the upshot of all this, is invariably that we will find others that through their own unrestrained freedom will actively oppose us or work against us, for freedom without appropriate restraint, necessitates the collision, sooner or later, of two or more parties, exerting that freedom one against the other. This then unfailingly means that freedom without its attendant responsibility creates unending conflict, of which the only successful way to end such a conflict, is not to wage endless war against one another, but rather to find that common ground, that enables each of us to do what we ought to do, by volunteering subsuming that freedom into that which is beneficial and right for the greater good.
Because we are free, we are never compelled to give up that freedom, or even to restrain such, but those that do not do what they should ethically do, will find themselves trapped within an unending cycle, of misery, occasional happiness, and a drama that begins to wear on one's weary soul, until such truthfully surrenders to that which is Wisdom, and thereby frees itself from the delusion and the chains of having bought into that false freedom to begin with.