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Define "dignity." A slave in chains can have dignity, and a fabulously wealthy dictator or oligarch can have none, so I'm not sure what a promise that dignity i

• croes 5y ago
  Everything depends on definition how else was slavery possible on the US.
• ionicgiraffe 5y ago
  You are choosing to play with words instead of trying to understand what it meant. It can also be that you are trying to make a point of the broadness and the impossibility of providing an exhaustive definition. If we tried, we would do nothing else, for anything: is freedom actually freedom if I am not allowed to harm others gratuitously? For the law, the slave and the dictator both have dignity, and lower-rank laws will go into detail into what that entails up to the point the judicial system would need to establish if a certain act violates the dignity of a human or not: e.g., "can we kill a dictator nude in a public place and exhibit their remains at the entrance of the presidential palace?" Does it violate their dignity (even if we consider undeserved?)?