Let's say you're coaching a children's football team. The objective is not simply for the kids to run around and have fun, but to improve their ability to play football. You, as coach, are quite knowledgable about football; the kids are not. Your interest is sincere; you truly want the best for the kids.
You instruct the kids to do X. The kids decide they'd rather do Y.
They are exercising their "free will" to do Y. They are making a hash of the game, but they are exercising their free will.
Now let's say you instruct the kids to X. The kids, who admire and respect you as coach, do X as you say.
Have they surrendered their free will simply because they did as they were told?
Or, stated differently, does free will imply contradiction of authority?
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