Are All Freedoms Equal?

               In the "Positive and Negative Liberty" article, from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the writer makes a point about whether or not all freedoms are "created equal."  The author says,
               "Should all options (of freedom) count for the same in terms of degrees of freedom, or should                         they be weighted according to their importance in terms of other values? And how are we to compare the unfreedom created by the physical impossibility of an action with, say, the unfreedom created by the difficulty of costliness or punishability of an action? It is only by comparing these different kinds of actions and constraints that we shall be in a position to compare individuals' overall degrees of freedom."
              I find this interesting because if the government took this into account, there would always be people who disagree. Everyone has different values and holds different freedoms in a higher value.  But should certain freedoms be held as more important than others?  Or could we just not make a distinction between the types of freedom and hold each freedom as equally important as other freedoms? I think it is important to make this distinction, especially between positive and negative liberty, because it allows us as U.S. citizens to have an opinion and take advantage of and participate in the democratic government by voting for what we believe in.