Yes, gnu! The problem is exactly that. People don't get to decide for themselves. Their "leaders" decide for them...and the police and the courts enforce the decision. If you refuse, you get arrested, fined, imprisoned, beaten...maybe even executed (depending on where and when).

That's really a dictatorship, although it pretends not to be in order to keep us relatively cooperative with its objectives. Every government claims to be defending "freedom" (while simultaneously denying freedom to a great many of its own citizens).