When you answer questions like this, it's important to do so without bringing emotion into it.
Freedom, from the perspective of human history, is very new and very rare; and it is also, in my opinion, the optimal circumstance under which people can live. Freedom is what has finally advanced the human species out of the mud and into outer space, pulled us out of the autocratic Rule of Kings, and gave us the rights of man.
Freedom is the single lynch pin on which all other human moral arguments are predicated. Without freedom there is no moral priori for racial equality, religious tolerance, or sexual preference. There is no fair trial, or legal protections, or political autonomy.
Without freedom there is only a power structure making use of a might makes right philosophy, and a people silently praying for it's benevolence and favor.
Freedom, for all it's warts, it the greatest thing we've ever had.
So yes, in that light, it's a good thing.