 and our capacity to participate with others in conversation to make judgments about our current circumstances and what we should do about our current circumstances is all that is at the core of what being political is. So in the first instance, to say that we're all equal is to recognize that each of us has that capacity to participate in politics and to take ownership of our own lives, again, to judge our present circumstances and to choose a course for the future. So then there's a second question of,