The duality of dignity deserves definitive distinction, for contingency arises when viewing its purpose within a singular scope. Consider if pride prioritizes worldly praise, before self-respect. What is dignity when self-respect is second? More specifically, why seek admiration from a world of which washes away what makes you You?

Enmeshment into a world of hardened hearts erodes love of who one is and can be. You deserve to be you, and never another for anyone else. The strippage of self-worth reveals our naked pride, one foreign to innate intentions. Pain exposes one’s purposeless defense, of which will sacrifice to sustain its own. Evidently, no pride can remain in one with no selfless love.