What is the final step of the so-called Three Musketeers plot (68-69, three or so pages into chapter 3). What do you think Vonnegut intends to show us by presenting this detail of the story? How does this final step deepen our sense of this "Three Musketeers" idea. Explain.

an assumption that the decision could have resulted in the further eroding of free speech rights to citizens

Explanation:

" The Supreme Court has decided that free speech rights are more important than helping parents  keep violent material away from children."  In this version, the present perfect has been used, so the focus has been set on the effect of the action denoted by the verb: to decide. The decicion has been made : free speech is more important than helping parents . The original sentences uses the future, so it has not set  the focus on a final decision but on the probabilties of making that decision. It is a speculative idea, therefore a decision against  freedon of speech may be made.