Not only are you ignoring the fact that the speaker conflated different claims or positions, you just did it yourself with this word “cosmopolitanism.”
“The comparative” can avoid certain rhetorical tricks that are harmful to real discussion, but your example is a more pernicious trick.
I’m actually summarising someone else’s argument—an argument made in the linked video.
The point is that when people discuss the comparative, it makes the discussion more explicit, as we know that they are comparing A to B, instead of C to B.
Not only are you ignoring the fact that the speaker conflated different claims or positions, you just did it yourself with this word “cosmopolitanism.”
“The comparative” can avoid certain rhetorical tricks that are harmful to real discussion, but your example is a more pernicious trick.
I’m actually summarising someone else’s argument—an argument made in the linked video.
The point is that when people discuss the comparative, it makes the discussion more explicit, as we know that they are comparing A to B, instead of C to B.