The World Bank just released a remarkable study that we should look at, which demonstrates that unprevented civil wars are causing dramatic damage everywhere. |
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. |
A regulatory regime should seek to minimize the costs of regulation as well as the cost of unprevented harm. |
The relevant right here is neither the liberty-right to participate in the good nor the claim-right to be unprevented by others from participating in the good, both of which will normally be individual rights. |
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. |
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. |