| Since one is free to the extent that one is externally unprevented from doing things, they say, one can be free to do what one does not desire to do. |
| This entails seeking more effective ways of preventing crises in time, ending unprevented conflicts more swiftly and helping countries achieve lasting peace once the fighting has stopped and peace agreements have been signed. |
| Negative theorists of freedom therefore tend to say not that having freedom means being unprevented from doing as one desires, but that it means being unprevented from doing whatever one might desire to do. |
| The World Bank just released a remarkable study that we should look at, which demonstrates that unprevented civil wars are causing dramatic damage everywhere. |
| If being free meant being unprevented from realizing one's desires, then one could, again paradoxically, reduce one's unfreedom by coming to desire fewer of the things one is unfree to do. |
| This weakness in the ICFR increases the likelihood that an incorrect statement could go unnoticed and unprevented. |
