Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.