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I usually take the Buddhist position.
Humanity, like many beings, wishes for happiness and deplores misery. There is dignity in helping others find happiness and avoid/alleviate misery. There is dignity in seeking this for oneself.
I believe this to be true regardless of whether there is such thing as a soul or deities.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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