You're overthinking this and causing some kind of weird double negative. You're asking for active user input - in order to *de*select - what the user *doesn't* want. That is a very confusing anti-pattern.
Just have the user actively select what they want to avoid from a plain list (no pre-checked boxes).
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Another solution might be to have dropdown menus which make it more explicit what is being selected:
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