We can't violate another's dignity without violating our own.
That probably explains a whole additional level of frustration than just my own individual dignity being violated: I feel Trump and his supporters offend the dignity of the entire United States of America.
Even Nelson Mandela's privacy and dignity are violated for the sake of a cheap photo opportunity by the ANC's top echelon.
The minister of civil affairs, Li Liguo, said on Tuesday that "bizarre" names that "damage sovereignty and national dignity" or "violate the socialist core values and conventional morality" would be stamped out, the state news agency Xinhua reported.
"Indeed, the victims of hardship and despair, whose human dignity is violated with impunity, become easy prey to the call to violence, and they can then become violators of peace," he said.
When prosecutors like Carmen Ortiz use the kind of ruthless methods she used against Swartz, even when it does not lead to the tragic end it did here, she not only fails to recognize his human dignity, she violates our right to be represented as the United States in way compatible with our commitment to that value.
They also suffer from symbolic aggression; their dignity is violated.
Druapadi, who challenges and mocks even her husbands, has her dignity repeatedly violated by men.
But, dense government bureaucracy, inaccessible and unaccountable leaders, decisions supporting only the wealthy, and calls for civil discourse are making Trump supporters' dignity feel violated (sounds a lot like Bernie's supporters' frustrations, doesn't it?).
When participants spoke about situations in which their dignity was violated or promoted, what is it they understood to have been harmed or enhanced?
She goes on to say that "in the absence of criteria that can enable us to know just when dignity is violated, the concept remains hopelessly vague" and that it "means no more than respect for persons or their autonomy".
