Respect for and protection of human dignity from part of the constituent principles of the Basic Law. The free human personality and its dignity constitute the highest legal values within the constitutional order…This means that…the individual must be recognized as a member with equal rights and a intrinsic value. It is therefore contrary to human dignity to make persons the mere object of the state…The phrase ‘the human being must always remain an end in himself' in of unlimited validity in all areas of law; for the dignity of the human being as a person which cannot be lost consists exactly of the maintenance of his recognition as an autonomous personality.