Choice and free will are such a burden for the vast majority of people. The Islamic Jihadists are probably right, in that they absolutely despise anything relating to free exercise of opinion, or democratic expression, unless, of course, the democratic expression may be manipulated to entrench themselves in power, then all dissent is shut down.
That is an extremely efficient way of managing human affairs. Unfortunately, not everybody fits in to that rather tight little box, so it is “necessary” to prune back all that excessive growth of dissident opinion, by driving out or simply liquidating the persons who choose to express any resistance to conformity.
But in pruning away all that dissension, there is also lost a lot of initiative, and ambition, and creativity, and yes, the avarice that does compel some part of the population to continuously advance in technological and economic benefits that do eventually make their way to the somnambulists who are sleep-walking their way through life.
Without the constant prodding and poking necessary to bring the sleep-walkers to some semblance of semi-consciousness, they would all lapse into a deep coma, from which they shall never awake.