While researching #Privacy I side quested to understand Dignity. Illuminating for me when I learned that the concept of human dignity as we commonly refer to it today is virtually brand new, hotly debated and very uncertain. We do not have a shared definition, and only theories of its implications.
Now when I think about current events, or I hear societal debates, it's like I'm hearing badly harmonized singers. There's the content of the debate on top, and right underneath it I hear, in dissonant and grating keys, all these various narratives that have little hope of being made consonant if we do not yet have some shared concession on human dignity.