“The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.”

—  Alfred Jules Ayer

"The Concept of Freedom".
The Meaning of Life and Other Essays (1990)

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English philosopher 1910–1989

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