Every action for humanity is also an action against some humans

Evidence

Thus one finds himself in the presence of the paradox that no action can be generated for man without its being immediately generated against men. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 102

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A genuinely top-tier formulation: the unavoidable failure built into any action, which the reader’s typology must accommodate when deciding what the free person does differently — she acts anyway, accepting the failure rather than masking it.
• XREF: Central to tracking whether ‘willing my freedom requires willing yours’ is derived: Beauvoir here flatly states freedoms conflict, so the coordination claim is asserted or aspirational rather than following from this paradox.