Declaring something part of humanness is an evaluative act, not descriptive.

Evidence

As far as [secondary-level] capabilities go, to call them part of humanness is to make a very basic sort of evaluation. It is to say that a life without this item would be too lacking, too impoverished, to be human at all. (Nussbaum 1992, 220) In general, then, the Capabilities Approach, in my version, focuses on the protection of areas of freedom so central that their removal makes a life not worthy of human dignity. — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts and Measurement, 211

Categorization

• APHORISMS: Good living requires protecting certain freedoms whose absence makes a life unworthy of dignity.
• XREF: Echoes the measurement debate over whether concept definition encodes normative commitments before any data is gathered.