Legitimate causes can require fighting against other valid causes

Evidence

Thus, it is possible, and often it even happens, that one finds himself obliged to oppress and kill men who are pursuing goals whose validity one acknowledges himself. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 100

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• QUESTION: Directly relevant to whether ‘willing my freedom requires willing yours’ is derived: Beauvoir here acknowledges freedoms genuinely conflict, complicating the strong claim.

Related

• Every action for humanity is also an action against some humans (similarity 0.82)
• Fulfilling every individual’s will is impossible because some wills seek enslavement of others. (similarity 0.81)
• The sub-man resists the projects of free men rather than enlarging the human realm. (similarity 0.81)
• Moral judgments require presupposing human freedom in oneself and others. (similarity 0.80)
• Existentialist ethics condemns tyranny because self-justification requires other men (similarity 0.80)
• Acting for a cause is inseparable from acting for oneself (similarity 0.79)
• Construction of distant ends forces violence that revolt can avoid. (similarity 0.78)
• One person’s freedom often requires another person’s freedom to be curtailed. (similarity 0.78)