There is unconditional freedom, which is when people can do anyone or anything at anyplace, anytime, and anywhere and in any way they please. So, this would allow rapists to rape, killers to kill anyone for fun, pedophiles to "play" with children without authorities taking the children away from those pedophiles, people to put graffiti everywhere (especially on military buildings), druggies to use drugs like LSD whenever and wherever, people to lie without punishment, people to cheat without punishment, etc.
And there is conditional freedom, which is when people can have some freedoms to do what they want to do on the condition that they do not cheat, lie, abuse people, etc.
Countries opt for conditional freedom rather than unconditional freedom to make sure people are obeying the laws rather than becoming wild animals that are uncontrollable, uncivilized, etc., which is the rational and "decent" thing to do.
To me, freedom is the ability to do what you want to do without someone or something preventing you from doing that. Some people create this reality that they can't do something because their politicians say they can't do it. But, some people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Bob Marley, etc. create this reality that they can do something despite their politicians saying they can't do it because they don't choose to be easily obedient citizens if they see that their politicians are not seeing the bigger picture.