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Freedom is a gift, but also a task. It is a value that binds a man to make intelligent choices in truth and love, respecting the dignity of a person. If a man uses freedom in a wrong way, cultivating their own desires, it comes to enslavement, and finally to the mutilation of humanity, which is the consequence of bad decisions and tragic choices. The first part of this article contains some terms of freedom, and then a problem of positive and negative freedom was shown. The highlight of these analyses is the presentation of selected contemporary forms of enslavement of the young man such as addictions, media, materialism or consumerism.