Nothing more completely reveals the character of a person than freedom. The ability to speak and act in ways that are unrestricted by occupation and dominance provides a generous capacity for expression and design. Being free to engage in individual pursuits removes what otherwise would be repressed containments that stifle imagination and creativity. Freedom provides access to provisions and opportunities that can be used to gain advantage and to achieve prosperity.
Freedom prevents supervised regulation of the methods a person chooses to use in order to succeed in accomplishing some determined objective. As long as caution is taken to avoid unlawful behaviors, or at least to be successful to avoid being caught behaving unlawfully, an individual can move unobstructed along a set course. Freedom grants a person abundant space to conspire and operate.
How a person represents themself to another is completely within the prerogative of the individual who is free to decide. The unfettered provision enabled by freedom allows a person to distinguish the pattern of how they will relate to others without any limitations imposed by the need to acquire permission or consent. A free person can of their own volition decide how they will function. Only the set of values and moral prerequisites that abide within the heart and the spirit of the individual will serve to guide their performance.
So the way an individual who is free to choose decides how they will proceed is a direct reflection of the content of their inner orientation, the nature of their innate composition. Whatever external forces have previously acted upon the individual combined with the sensitivities that arise from the human conscience, these criteria alone give direction to subsequent speech and actions. By observing these public manifestations the character of the person performing them can easily be ascertained.
However, when operating in total freedom there is one ingredient that may escape recognition by even the most intent observer: is the individual being honest; is the individual telling the truth. There is simply no way do determine in their speech whether or not a person who has the freedom to function is lying. The capacity to lie without challenge is directly proportional to the amount of freedom an individual has acquired.
And herein lies the most threatening component of freedom. Freedom nurtures lying. Freedom permits a person to lie without consequence. Freedom provides the unobstructed opportunity for an individual to lie without being discredited. The result of this condition is that freedom fosters the disposition and even encourages an individual to lie in order to achieve some desired objective.
Freedom indeed provides many benefits for a person. Probably the most beneficial is the ability to lie unrestrained. If the individual has no internal objection to lying then lying will be a natural action for the one who is free. This matter becomes a problem only for the community.
This is why telling the truth is so difficult, maybe impossible for persons who are aggressively passionate about maintaining an advantage. Since freedom makes lying so convenient and profitable and unopposed (even if the lie is eventually exposed) why then would anyone want to tell the truth?