Full Idea
Berlin's distinction of 'freedom from' and 'freedom to' is worthless …because to say that I want to be free from something for absolutely no reason makes no sense. Unfreedom is being blocked from what I want to do, which ceases if I no longer want it.
Gist of Idea
'Freedom from' is an empty idea, if the freedom is not from impediments to my desires
Source
John Charvet (Liberalism: the basics [2019], 07)
Book Reference
Charvet,John: 'Liberalism: the basics' [Routledge 2019], p.65
A Reaction
[compressed] The government could guarantee us against attacks by albatrosses, but we would hardly have a national holiday to celebrate the freedom. Still, there is freedom from incoming troubles, and freedom to output things.