“Rather than being an abdication of responsibility, argues Beauvoir, to live freely by not limiting one’s choices to any a priori moral principles or policies or positions is to grow up. It is to take every situation as it really is, in its specificity, concreteness, murkiness, and ambiguity. In short, existentialism is a call to become an adult in a world that wants to treat us as children, where it is very easy to live as children.”