The Kabbalah says that it is very easy for us to think that freedom is the ability to do whatever we want.
However, spiritually speaking, freedom is actually the fortitude to refrain from doing or participating on all that pings on us. It is the strength of mind to decide how we want to behave or be.
And so, though the idea of freedom is very attractive, it carries with it the responsibility of what we do with it.
On one side we have the power of self-determination and on the other is this ocean of freedom. What are we going to do with this power...?
First, whatever we choose to do should not harm us or hit back at us, and second - but as important, if not more important - we must not do anything to harm anyone around us.... This would make us feel truly free.