Freedom's never Free

I heared and read much about freedom.
Assassin's Creed influenced how I thought free will worked.
A lot.
If I were to summarize it, this would be it:

A group of very influential people plot to unite the Crusading Christians and the Defendin Muslims of the world under one banner. Halting all the crusades and ending the hatred and war. Your task is to stop them, because even though they're quest is noble, the means in which they wish to achieve it is unfair. They would enslave a population under one banner and supress FREE WILL. In theory, when you supress free will, more people conform and will be at peace.
YOUR society doesn't believe in that. In his dying words , one of your targets explains to you why their cause is just.

"YOU : ... people must be free to choose what to believe in.
Target: Have they ever been free? Except for the occasional convert or heritic, no one chooses
what they believe in. They're all taughted what to believe...."


My whole life I stuck to the free will being the most important thing to have.
And in that moment, I had to restructure everything.

A Spartan would die defending his country in 300BC not because he was given a choice to believe in Sparta, but because his whole life was based in Sparta. He was taught the Spartan ways, the Spartan life and it's rituals and beliefs.

Same as an American soldier, born and bred to be given NO CHOICE but the one he has been taught to believe. There is NO CHOICE. Unless you yourself experience each belief/practice/creed, you have only the choice of sticking to what you've been taught. Unless of coarse your willing to open your mind a little and let everything pour in.

We, or at least I, never realized how un-free we really are. What we believe in isn't automatically justified to be the absolute truth. Otherwise everyone would believe in just one thing.

This really isn't making much sense right now. So I'll have to try again someday in a part 2