A few years ago, I wrote a post in which I argued that, since rural residents were the only true Americans, they should be entitled to additional votes for their livestock. The post was, of course, satire.
J.D. Vance has advocated that parents with children should be entitled to additional votes. He has since dismissed this proposal as a thought experiment, by which he means that it is impracticable, not that he considers it conceptually wrong.
Is there any meaningful difference between my satire and his thought experiment?