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Notes
1Commentators differ on precisely which feature of humanity grounds equality as dignity. Jotterand adopts the position espoused by Holmes Rolston (2008), that each person's claim to a unique identity confers all humans with dignity. Given space constraints, I do not take a position on which aspects of humanity are dignity-conferring.
2Bostrom refers to this form of dignity as dignity as a quality, and he ascribes it to nonpersons as well as persons. I use the language of virtue as dignity because (1) virtue is the quality that underpins Bostrom's category, and (2) this commentary leaves open the question of whether nonpersons can possess virtue as dignity.
3Some enhancements could be accomplished prenatally, but individuals born with such enhancements would have a unique identity.