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1 year agoThe point is: that goes also for criminals, and prisoners. And yes, it should go for refugees too, even brown skinned ones. Oh, and people on social security. And disabled people.
We did a lot of violating human dignity in the past, that’s the reason it’s the first article of the constitution. It’s a good principle. One that many other constitutions don’t have. We can be proud about that.
However I don’t think many people grasp the implications of it not being uphold, unless they become a victim themselves, and I believe that a large part of the population does not care or will be favorable towards dignity-violations, especially against the most heinous of criminals, and minorities.
And they aren’t clear when to use them either, it’s kinda cute when they look at you questioningly if they did correctly after formulating a sentence.