Vice President JD Vance made news in Munich by accusing the European political elite of not really believing in democracy. But another line stood out for me that I think is also worth noting. Vance defended the unique dignity of human life. From the speech:

Contrary to what you might hear a couple mountains over in Davos, the citizens of all of our nations don’t generally think of themselves as educated animals or as interchangeable cogs of a global economy.

It’s just one sentence in a 20-minute speech. But I think it is important and urge the vice president to expand upon that thought because human exceptionalism is under increasing attack by some of society’s most powerful political and cultural forces. For example:

This matters tremendously because He is the necessary predicate to universal human rights. Indeed, oppression, genocide, discrimination, slavery, and other evils that we inflict upon each other arise from refusing to see us all as equals based simply and objectively upon our humanity.

So, here’s hoping that simple sentence is the opening salvo of a much more prominent moral education campaign by Vance and others in the Trump administration. Because the world needs it.