What argument does the author counter in this excerpt from Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
I have heard it asserted by some, that as America has flourished under her former connection with Great Britain, the same connection is
necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument.
We may as well assert that because a child has thrived upon milk, that it is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is t of
become a precedent for the next twenty.

Thomas Paine counters the opinion of some people that America had existed as such a developed country only because of the British rule, and that it should therefore remain British, so as to keep developing and becoming better.

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adioabiola adioabiola · Answer 2 · 2022-05-04T12:08:54+02:00

The argument which the author counters from the excerpt is as follows;

I have heard it asserted by some, that as America has flourished under her former connection with Great Britain, the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect.

What is the use of a Counter-argument?

Counterarguments constitute a part of good persuasive writing and speaking strategy because they show that one has considered other points of view.