The President's (and his loyalists',) stated need to "define" or "clarify" "Human Dignity" is a stark revelation of his moral emptiness. It is an atlas of the ample void that consumes his conscious. It "defines" his soul and the effects of such soulful waywardness, for which we are held to account in its place.
Certain and specific terms are deliberately inserted into the key documentation that, although loosely, hold the nations of the world together. These terms transcend the random placement of a few words together on a page. These terms comprise and echo the thesis of the whole. When they are written, they are clearly intended to be a summation within the argument, a premeditated reminder of the dissertation and are "peppered" throughout to ensure clarity.
"Human Dignity" defines itself. It is a term intended to be as ornate and precise as the universality of the primary colors. When weighed against the primal components of morality we must expect of our elected leaders, an unstated fluency of the "definition" of Human Dignity should and must be implicit as an inborn component of the individual in question. Sadly, the individual whose basic human qualities we must question is the "leader of the free world."
The alternative to a society led by a person proficient in this primary and essential human component is savagery; to couple savagery with power is to deny Human Dignity by default. To support a leader, any leader and for any unrelated reason absent in this cellular necessity is to endorse savagery. It is to become a savage one's self. It is to intentionally develop an ignorance of the horrors of centuries past. Worst of all, it is to apply savagery to the blessed but powerless citizens of the world.
For our President to question the meaning of the abolished "Outrages upon personal dignity" as stated in Article 3 (1;C.) of the General Provisions of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisioners of War is grotesque and must not be tolerated by the American people, whether conservative or liberal. Further, should he succeed at any level, it is our duty to demand the removal of the President and any individual who had supported this atrocity from their respective offices.
In his efforts to politicize a definitive, pinnacle component of the human race, the President has done little else but raise a great banner before him, warning us of his own incomplete humanity. Should he succeed in lessoning the unconditional duty for humanity to recognize its own dignity and convey it to its whole, he will nullify the epic progression of our quintessential humanity, thus setting the course toward the savagery of old.
The vast majority of us hold this primary, organic component of our humanity. Wretchedly, we live in an age where those who enjoy the most power have revealed to us that they lack this imperative appendage within their individual humanities. Therefore, it must be our mission above all others to expel all who seek to rob us of our dignity. For, is our "Human Dignity" not at the apex of what makes us human?
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UPDATE:
I thought it prudent to include The Golden Rule as it had defined the humanity of people for thousands of years and of many religious faiths.
Here is the Biblical Version:
"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets."
~Matthew 7:12
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