Freedom sounds self evidently right and good whenever you have it; and self evidently risky and dangerous in areas you don't.
There are millions of people who think having the freedom to choose your own spouse is foolhardy and reckless. They point to the high divorce rate in the West as evidence that people can't be trusted to make those important choices themselves.
Here in the West, the most rampaging, tyrannical statist still assumes people should be free to choose their own spouse; because it's a freedom he's known since birth.
This is a reason I am so excited about the self-education or "homeschool" trend that is taking place. I believe that government schools are a place that westerners are taught and molded into compliance. Without it, we have better behavior and less willingness to comply at the same time.
I do think being homeschooled was one if the best things for my intellectual development. It was largely self-directed from 5th grade on, too.
And yet people simply accept marriage licenses and government divorce courts because that is the status quo too.