I argue that Martha Nussbaum’s disregard for negative liberties hurt her overall message. Nussbaum’s Capability Approach measures the development of a country by how many opportunities are available to every person in that country. According to Nussbaum, everyone “should get above a certain threshold level of combined capability, in the sense not of coerced functioning but of substantial freedom to choose and to act.” This sounds great, but there are a few problems. One is that names 10 core capabilities and these are the only ones that will be guaranteed. All other freedoms, which Nussbaum considers to be “not that central”, will be left up to the “ordinary workings of the political process.” One of the biggest problems is the question of