What do you think? In the discussion for today, explain whether you agree with Beauvoir about ethics, and how the primary obligation each of us has is to advance the cause of every person’s freedom.

In some contrast to Sartre, Beauvoir emphasizes how our choices for ourselves always relate to other people, and how other people are treated. Although your freedom is yours to use as you see fit, if you use it to oppress other people, or if you are confronted with injustices you choose not to address, this undermines any free choice you do try to make.
What do you think? In the discussion for today, explain whether you agree with Beauvoir about ethics, and how the primary obligation each of us has is to advance the cause of every person’s freedom. If she’s wrong, what makes her wrong? But if she’s right, what’s one concrete step you could take in the direction of freedom as she understands it?