The philosopher Immanuel Kant said that rational human beings should be treated as an end in themselves and not as a means to something else. The fact that we are human has value in itself.
Kant, Immanuel, deutscher Philosoph, geb. 22.4.1724 in Königsberg (Ostpreußen), gest. 12.2.1804 in Königsberg. Kant, der bedeutendste Philosoph des deutschen Idealismus, der seine Vaterstadt, ...