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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 3.1 Reading Skills. What does Paine achieve by placing this statement after his argument?


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Hurry And here's your smoke to use your right first

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check out the following passage way Bring nothing anymore relations

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say fallacious legal terms What is pain achieved by placing

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the following statement after his argument against the necessity of

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a connection with great britain We may as well assert

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that because a child has thrived upon milk that it

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is never to have meat All right our answer options

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are pain mentioned Think There's nothing about kosher you all

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right Well now it's very possible that britain once supplied

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america with meat and milk but that's not really the

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point here and yes pain certainly does like to mock

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the king but here he's actually making a much more

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sophisticated argument He's making a comparison Loyalist critics argued that

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because america had flourished under britain it couldn't flourish without

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britain But jane doesn't buy that After all even though

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a baby grows up drinking milk can it eventually eat

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other things Well pain is poking holes in the loyalist

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argument through tactful use of analogy Well the answer is

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b because sometimes all it takes to defeat tyranny is

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a little common sense And then eight years of open 00:01:29.953 --> [endTime] war

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