It is important to note that Sartre’s notion of freedom is radical. Freedom is absolute to the extent that each person decides the significance of the constraints in his or her facticity: “I find an absolute responsibility for the fact that my facticity … is directly inapprehensible”, because supposed “facts” about me are never brute facts, “but always appear across a projective reconstruction of my for-itself” (Sartre 1992a [1943]: 710).  For Sartre, only our choices and their projected ends define our situations as meaningful, as threatening or favorable, as affording certain actions etc. The resistances and obstacles that one encounters in a situation acquire meaning only in and through the free choice.  Thus, individuals are responsible not only for their identities, but for the way the world presents itself in their experiences. Even others are just “opportunities and chances” for my free creative activity. According to this early formulation, it is up to us to interpret how other people are to matter to us relative to situations in which we find ourselves engaged (Sartre 1992a [1943]: 711).