[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Actually I do not think we are in that much disagreement.

Thomas: “It can be kept or given away by the individual and the individual alone.”

That is the same thing. In essence the individual is the keeper of their own dignity. It can be kept of given away. The only difference with what I said is that I said we start neutral. Thomas says we start positive and can lose it. Both ways lay responsibility for it at the individual, not the government or other people.

[Personal Responsibility]

“The only difference with what I said is that I said we start neutral. “

Agreed this is the crux of the difference. I agree with Thomas.