Modern political and administrative organizations are set up to deal with humans as abstract beings. What is our political existence without abstraction: as workers, voters, welfare recipients, and criminals? This was, of course, the thrust of Fukuyama’s argument (which in itself extended Hegel,albeit controversially) that liberal democracy allowed for a recognition of the particular through the protection of rights. But a right is a legal abstraction, not a human quality. We need only think of the conflict between the prolife/prochoice movements to see that rights are something that we append to a human being at a time of our choosing, to the people we so choose. Universal rights, for example, did not prevent slavery.