How does this strategy help Mahatma Gandhi persuade listeners to protest peacefully?
It encourages listeners to criticize only British people who have worked to
expand British rule.
It encourages listeners to consider how British people may be feeling about
Indian independence.
It encourages listeners to view both British imperialism and British people in a
more positive light.
It encourages listeners to respect British people while still pursuing Indian
independence.

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."

is it multiple

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