"According to Shcachter (at 849), persons subject to any one of the following conditions are effectively denied their inherent human dignity: (a) persons subject to a life in abject destitution; (b) persons subject to humiliating or degrading conditions of existence; (c) persons whose exercie of basic rights is made dependent upon the benevolence of or arbitrary power by others (as distinct from obtaining their basic entitleents as of right); (d) persons subject to egregious forms of discrimination; and (e) persons denied the capacity to assert their [legal] claims to basic rights."