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Instead, a person makes choices from birth and the different decisions that one chooses form a pattern and creates one’s character.
Sartre also says, "Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing else than his life" (769). This exemplifies the point that man is the product of his actions and has complete control over his own life. The soul and personality that are given to a person do not limit him in his actions; the judgments that he makes depict the type of person that he is. Therefore the essence does not create the man, the man creates his essence.
Also, one’s choices and decisions create a code for all of man. This set of codes creates the unwritten laws of people, which in turn create "good and bad." If a person acts against this he can pray to God and ask for forgiveness. However, existentialism is indifferent to God’s existence, which makes the person fully ...

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