Dual Faces of Human Dignity: Secured Worth and Required Recognition

History informs us the varying use of the term human dignity from a status of a rank, an inherent value to a dignified way of living. Human dignity has intrinsic, attributed and inflorescent variants, inheres in human individuals as well as collectively in human species, plays positive and negative roles of empowerment and constraint, functions as principle as well as a rule and is a self-respect, self-esteem and social recognition in acknowledgement of the secured, inviolable, intrinsic worth. It prohibits self-degradation and social degradation of individuals and humanity as a whole. It inheres not only in rational-moral capacities but includes all basic human needs. Humanity is dignity and every human individual is a concrete, experiential face of the existential dignity. Human dignity is neither vague nor useless, but the supreme moral-legal watchdog principle of complementarity for bioethics, biolaw and biopolitics to protect humans against misuses under the mask of freedom of research in biosciences and biotechnologies