One might argue that the lack of privacy eliminates dignity.

One might argue that the lack of privacy eliminates dignity. Unfortunately, the lack of privacy does not necessitate the lack of dignity. If rationality and privacy are not a major component of dignity, then what is dignity? I believe a better definition of dignity must exist. Dignity of a person resides in the very control of the self, before it is even manifested in moral or legal actions.

A simple example exists in the desires of the soul that have the least connection to morality and legality, such as the desire to eat. If the desire for food becomes the controlling factor in the personality to the extent that there is no concentration on social life, it is only on food, a person has not violated any moral universal law according to Kant. They will not be punished legally either. However, they will not be respected morally.

The inability to control the self caused the repetition of fulfilling the desire. The desire is irrationally cloning itself. The more repetition, the less dignity. Controlling desires of oneself is a good sign of exercising power over power, and shows the ability of living moderately according to the law of God, not to our ability of rational justification.

Thus, controlling our present desire to abuse nature by irresponsibly consuming; is a good way of exercising power over the power of the carelessness. Future generations are equally important, and should not be harmed. In Islam saving one soul is equal to the saving of all mankind.

“On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people.” (Qur’an, 5:32) God is the lawgiver who regulates (legally and morally) the relationship between human beings themselves, human being and nature, human beings and the rest of the creatures.

Each person who is mature and mentally competent is an autonomous being and as thus responsible for his or her actions in this life and in the hereafter. They should treat each other according to a universal and an absolute code of ethics, not a relativistic or opportunistic one. God in His law (Shar’ah) defines right, wrong, good, evil, happiness, the forbidden (Haram) and the lawful (Hala), the encouraged, the discouraged, and the permissible.

To live by the law of God (Shari’ah) is to ensure salivation in the hereafter.