Acts that respect one person’s freedom can tyrannize another’s.

Evidence

But in asylums one sees melancholic patients who have tried to commit suicide twenty times, who devote their freedom to seeking the means of escaping their jailers and of putting an end to their intolerable anguish; the doctor who gives them a friendly pat on the shoulder is their tyrant and their torturer. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 132

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier typology work: the melancholic patient who devotes their freedom to suicide acts like the passionate man or the nihilist whose freedom is spent on a single end. — connects to: One can act on the Other only once their freedom has collapsed. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 966; Every act toward the Other, even consolation, forces and instrumentalizes their freedom — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1007; Tolerance and even abstention also violate the Other’s freedom. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1008 (+4 more)