Pinocchio had always wanted to be free to do exactly as he pleased every single day.
He wanted to play instead of study and eat candy instead of vegetables and stay up all night.
Pleasure Island seemed to offer him everything he had ever dreamed of having all at once.
There were no adults there and no rules and no one to tell him what he should or should not do.
For a short time it felt like the most wonderful place he had ever had the luck to discover.
But without rules and responsibilities the boys on the island gradually turned into donkeys.
True freedom is not the absence of all limits — it is the ability to make choices you can live with.
Freedom requires responsibility.

Pinocchio had always, for as long as he could remember, wanted to be free to do exactly as he pleased on every single day of his young life.
He wanted to play instead of going to school, to eat candy instead of vegetables, to stay up as late as he liked and sleep as long as he wanted to afterward.
Pleasure Island, when he first heard about it, seemed to offer him literally everything he had ever dreamed of having all at once and without any limits.
There were no adults there, no rules, no bedtimes, no homework, and no one at all telling him what he should or should not do with his time.
For a short and intoxicating period, it felt to Pinocchio like the single most wonderful place he had ever had the remarkable good luck to discover.
But then something strange and deeply unsettling began to happen — without any rules or responsibilities, the boys on the island gradually and unmistakably began turning into donkeys.
True freedom, Pinocchio was about to discover the hard way, is not the simple absence of all limits imposed from outside.
It is the much more difficult ability to make choices that you can still live with comfortably on the morning after you have made them.
Freedom requires responsibility.