Choosing to be indifferent to the dead is still a choice of attitude

Evidence

Of course the dead choose us, but it is necessary first that we have chosen them. We find here again the original relation which binds facticity to freedom: we choose our own attitude toward the dead, but it is not possible for us not to choose an attitude. Indifference with respect to the dead is a perfectly possible attitude (examples of it will be found among the heimatlos, among certain revolutionaries, or among individualists). But this indifference—which consists of making the dead “die again”—is one conduct among others with respect to them. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1263

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the facticity-freedom relation: freedom is inescapable even in apparent disregard, since not-choosing is itself a conduct.
• XREF: connects to: Attitudes toward death rest on a more fundamental project of living; Even the condemned were left a rational choice among death options — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 95; Indifference is a chosen self-blindness, not an innocent lack of awareness

Broader Connections

• Indifference is a chosen self-blindness, not an innocent lack of awareness #expands (0.92)
• Attitudes toward death rest on a more fundamental project of living #expands (0.85)
• Even the condemned were left a rational choice among death options #contradicts (0.70) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 95