Inherent human worth

I believe that human beings have inherent worth beyond utility. A benevolent society treats people as sacred, not disposable.

Confidence

High

What could disprove it

Show that treating human worth as purely instrumental produces a more benevolent and stable society.

Current support

Reducing persons to their economic or political usefulness justifies cruelty.

Dignity is the foundation of both rights and compassion.

Sample: UDHR Article 1 — dignity and equal rights are declared inherent, not granted by utility to the state.

Supporting resources

Studies, data, books, and references that help express and test this belief.

ReferenceUniversal Declaration of Human Rights — dignity ↗

Preamble affirms inherent dignity and equal, inalienable rights of all members of the human family.

BookStanford Encyclopedia — Kant's moral philosophy ↗

Humanity as end-in-itself — persons must not be treated merely as instruments.

ReferenceU.S. Declaration of Independence ↗

Self-evident truths and unalienable rights — historical anchor for dignity beyond utility.