Beauvoir said freedom isn't freedom from other people — it's bound up with them

In 'The Ethics of Ambiguity', Simone de Beauvoir argued that human existence is irreducibly ambiguous: we're each free to create our own meaning, yet that freedom only becomes real through other people's freedom too. Trying to escape the discomfort of that ambiguity, by pretending you're fully determined or absolutely free, is exactly what she called bad faith.

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity (Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté) — 1947
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