The worth a being has by existing. Dignity is not earned, cannot be forfeited, and is not granted by anyone — it is the ground floor.
Latin dignitas, worthiness, from dignus (worthy); in Rome the word also carried rank and standing, a sense this house deliberately does not keep.
The worth a being has simply by existing, never earned and never revocable. Where the Latin root once tied worth to rank, this house ties it to nothing but presence.