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I think that life where you don’t have dignity and where you don’t fight for people’s dignity is a wasted life.
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The speaker says that a life loses its value when dignity is absent and no effort is made to protect it for others. “Wasted life” is a strong judgment: it presents dignity, both for oneself and for other people, as something worth defending rather than ignoring.
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- International Commission of Jurists
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- Official Statement
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