How to lose your dignity
Out of human dignity, everyone can make their own sense. This is convenient when looking for universal human rights. About the conflicting meanings of human dignity, and why we aren't born with it.
The term human dignity often appears in constitutional texts. For example, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights begins with the following article:
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
In this and subsequent newsletters I reflect on that one sentence. Is it true that everyone is born free, and equal in dignity and rights?
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