It must be said that man by his sin departs from the order of reason. And so he departs from human dignity, according to which man is naturally free and existing for himself. He can fall in a certain way into the servitude of the beasts, so that, concerning him, he will be ordered according to what is useful to other [human beings]. We read in Psalm 48: “Man, constituted in honor, has not exercised his intelligence. He has been compared to stupid animals and made like them.” And in chapter 11 of the Book of Proverbs: “The fool will serve the wise.” And so although killing a man remaining in his dignity as a man is in itself evil, yet killing a sinful man can be good, like killing a beast. Indeed, the wicked man is worse than a beast and is more harmful, as the Philosopher indicates in Politics.
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“Dignitas Infinita” = socialism.