The Faithful have excellent manners and their ethics are impeccable. But they have a chip in their head that tells them what to do and think (so they aren’t really all there). This chip was put there by very good, smart people who want only the best for the world.
The Free are good, bad, smart, stupid, depending on the person, day and mood. They are usually pretty ok neighbors but occasionally they are extremely wonderful or terrible (then look out!). They mostly think for themselves and do what they like.
Some people need a master. Children tempted to drink gasoline, for example.
Assuming that the control could be resisted, call that a test. A test of self-awareness. If you can resist then you get free will, if you don’t then you don’t. It could be appropriate either way.
Sure. But the goal with kids is to work them towards being able to think for themselves. We guide them until they can, and even then, the guidance should look like rules and guidelines, not indoctrination of thoughts and beliefs.
And lets take your scenario and extend it. Lets say that aliens come along, and they see our planet, and they realise that it’s doomed because if they don’t intervene, scenario X will happen. They can’t solve this for us, so they need us to mobilise to save ourselves.
Aliens that come along and set “rules for our own good”, and enforce certain protective rules and regulations, like strict space parents, but do so without trying to control what we think are more “good” than aliens that indoctrinate away our free will and artificially create “voluntary” compliance.
In the first scenario, the space parents are saving us. In the second scenario, the space parents are replacing us.