“Dignity is your value, Jack. It’s something you and every living person have just because you are.” “Is that all?” I ask. “Isn’t that enough?” I’m quiet. “That’s plenty,” Dad tells me. “In fact, it’s everything. The dignity of others is how we know some actions are good and others bad. It’s how you know it isn’t right to steal, or to kill without grave reckoning, or to lie.” “You get all that from dignity?” “You do.”