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Please answer and explain why. I'm confused, and I don't want just the answer.

Read the passage.

. . .but if a thief break into my house, burn and destroy my property, and kill or threaten to kill me, or those that are in it, and to “bind me in all cases whatsoever,” to his absolute will, am I to suffer it? What signifies it to me, whether he who does it, is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman? whether it is done by an individual villain, or an army of them? If we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case, and pardon in the other . . .

In this passage from The Crisis, Thomas Paine was primarily employing which persuasive technique?


appeal to logic


appeal to ethics


appeal to authority


appeal to emotion

Respuesta :

The answer is it Appeals to Ethics.

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Answer:

The answer is indeed letter B. appeal to ethics.

Explanation:

In this excerpt of "The Crisis", Thomas Paine initially offers his audience a cruel description of one having his home and family taken from him, and being made captive by others. Paine then proceeds to show his own fairness and sense of justice (ethos - appeal to ethics) when he claims that the perpetrators of such horrible actions should be equally punished. it does not matter if it was a common person or a king who hurt a fellow human being so. Justice will only be accomplished when the punishment truly fits the crime, despite the person who committed it being a government authority.

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