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Sartre Chosen Path Aligns

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I think that the conversion and my responsibility part is linked together. In my conversion section, Sartre’s idea about the chosen path aligns with the question that we discussed in class: “What is stopping you from walking, hitching south right now, until you come to the beach you like, and selling t-shirt and trinkets for your life?” I understand this part as we would choose the path that we think we should go or do because the price for choosing the other path is too high, and we think that we are free to invert our choice, but we decide to choose the original project. I think this is related to my responsibility section because Sartre mentioned more about how one being responsible for every decision and everything happening in one’s life.

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