As Norman Malcolm put it, "a king might desire that his next chancellor should have knowledge, wit, and resolution; but it is absurd to add that the king's desire is to have a chancellor who exists".
While most of Iraq's Shia citizens might desire a prosperous and successful Iran next door, it would be an extraordinary stretch of imagination to claim they would favour turning their land into an Iranian satellite state.
Negative theorists of freedom therefore tend to say not that having freedom means being unprevented from doing as one desires, but that it means being unprevented from doing whatever one might desire to do.
It has created SF replicators to produce anything you might desire (these are never really described except as misty pockets).
Or perhaps a contestant on the Biggest Loser might desire to be complimented on huge weight loss, but aside from that, don't do it.
It was the anti-Semitism of assumptions — no professor ever considered that I might desire to become an auror, or aspire to a position in the Ministry of Magic, even though Jews had been finding placement in both for decades.
Like great Cadillacs of the distant past, it is huge, powerful, opulent and excessive, a truck that athletes, movie stars and musicians might desire.
You might desire a future free of the past.
The rest will find all the heroism and misery they might desire.
They ask Kim, or so they say, what sort of bauble she might desire.
