This is a better paraphrase that captures a political element of the argument. By making “policy keeps trending socially liberal world wide” into the opening sentence instead of a final parenthetical you’ve certainly made the argument look a lot more political. Congratulations, I guess. It is still a distorted rendering of the initial argument (which was as much about demographic changes as about changes in the allocation of political rights). And it still doesn’t come close to reducing to “we need more fiction that supports my world view”. Which of Alicorn’s premises does she only hold for political reasons?
Edit: removed screaming. Disregard this comment.
This is a better paraphrase that captures a political element of the argument. By making “policy keeps trending socially liberal world wide” into the opening sentence instead of a final parenthetical you’ve certainly made the argument look a lot more political. Congratulations, I guess. It is still a distorted rendering of the initial argument (which was as much about demographic changes as about changes in the allocation of political rights). And it still doesn’t come close to reducing to “we need more fiction that supports my world view”. Which of Alicorn’s premises does she only hold for political reasons?