Question

Read the excerpt from Common Sense.

Answer 1

Paine shows that it is not possible to forgive the abuses committed by Great Britain and that people who think this is possible are either very naive, or bad characters.

How effective is Paine's reasoning?

• It shows how Britain acted violently in America.
• It shows how Britain exploited, destroyed, and killed Americans.
• It shows how Great Britain wreaked havoc on America.

Paine claims that it is impossible to resolve the conflict with Great Britain peacefully because Great Britain itself does not want this, as it has treated Americans with extreme violence in a very cruel way. He reinforces that this behavior was not done in secret, but that all Americans can see how cruelly they have been exploited.

For him, those who ignore this, are putting their own country to failure, or are being incensed with their countrymen who are suffering a lot.

He reinforces that those who ignore the suffering of Americans are people of bad character and do not deserve to be considered worthy of any kind of social contact with their loved ones.

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