In this Wireless Philosophy video, Geoff Pynn (Elgin Community College) contrasts negative liberty, the freedom from coercion, with positive liberty, the ability of individuals to pursue their goals and advance their own interests through rational deliberation and action. Promoting positive liberty through democracy may involve imposing certain types of restrictions that are assumed to be in our best interests, but does this infringe on our negative liberty? If promoting positive liberty justifies coercion, might democracy risk hurting the interests of minorities?