 There's the issue in the first instance that we know straight off that we're not all the same, so what can it possibly mean to say that in some sense we're all equal? And then if one identifies a core feature of humanness, of humanity that we share, our capacity to be political creatures, then there's a sort of subsequent question of, well, but what does that actually mean in practice? How does that idea of a core element of equality in human beings relate to how we think about politics or politics?