Answer: Either absolute in this instance is, perhaps, equally terrible. The complete lack of freedom makes you a machine. You don't choose anything. Anything at all. If you don't have freedom, that is. Every thought and form of expression is already chosen by some other entity.
Likewise, absolute freedom is no different than absolute chaos. If anything goes, nothing matters. So, in some sense, nobody really has any freedom because their desires are potentially meaningless to everyone else around them.
To have no freedom though is to take away the very aspect that makes us human: the ability to create something, anything. Create a thought, which creates an idea, which creates words, which create actions, which create, eventually, create your character and personality. To lack freedom of thought is to be denied of all that which follows.
Look around you, too. Those with less freedom tend to be miserable. They do much more that they have to rather than what they want to. Similarly, look at people who have too much freedom: they don't really have an incentive to care about the freedoms of others because there are very little to no repercussions for their poor behavior.
Explanation: I have never wrote something like this before but this is honestly how I felt. Sorry it's a little long.
