To explain the criticism that lies with negative liberty, Taylor stated that opportunities need to be complemented with some valuation. The believed that, there will be a need to differentiate between important opportunities and those that are less important too. To elaborate his point, Taylor gives an example of traffic signal. In literal sense, traffic signal restricts an individual’s domain of a negative liberty. This is because they deprive an individual the opportunities of crossing the street wherever and whenever it is applicable. Nonetheless, no one in right state of mind would consider traffic signal to be restriction of liberty. More importantly, value of liberty will not be at stake as any sane individual would obviously prefer safety
