86%
of readers agree with Burke
Edmund Burke beats out Thomas Paine with his wit, brilliance, and solid organized theories. His beliefs in change through history have worked for thousands and thousands of years. The sudden switch of events with this maniacal revolution can and will only go down the road of mass chaos and destruction. This chaos and destruction is currently taking place now in this glorious country! The Bastille, Versailles, and Varenne name three different places where chaotic and destructive events have occurred. Taken over and torn down by revolutionaries, the Bastille was destroyed based off the spread of false lies about King Louis. Versailles was then stormed by hysterical fisher women trying to kill the monarchs. Varenne simply marks the spot where the monarchial family of this country was arrested and sent to their glorious imprisonment in the Tuilleries Palace. If these three sites do not bring to mind chaos, nothing will. Burke predicts this all with his brilliance shown in the writings of his Reflections on the Revolution in France. He says that the “rights” that revolutionaries claim to be aiming for are really only destroying their actual natural rights in the effort. In their claims of these rights, they destroy what little civility and hope they have in a futile effort. He presents a clear and
only end in disaster. He follows the principle stating that history is necessary for a government to succeed. Paine on the other hand only causes our generation more pain with his argument that dead men have no place in modern society. If this were true, how would the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen have been written? Should the national assembly have just ignored Rousseau’s (a dead man’s) work? If so, that declaration of rights never would have existed, and where would the revolution be? Nowhere. The revolutionaries are out of line in their radical opinions on how the government needs to alter itself. With no previous experience, they cannot expect to suddenly create a Utopian society overnight. His flawless reasoning and history to back it up crush Thomas Paine’s statements of equality and rights. Burke has nothing against these vague
their glorious imprisonment in the Tuilleries Palace. If these three sites do not bring to mind chaos, nothing will. Burke predicts this all with his brilliance shown in the writings of his Reflections on the Revolution in France. He says that the “rights” that revolutionaries claim to be aiming for are really only destroying their actual natural rights in the effort. In their claims of these rights, they destroy what little civility and hope they have in a futile effort. He presents a clear and
nothing against these vague ideas, but the method of attaining them makes all the difference. Either way, equality, freedom, and rights are to be established. One way is Paine’s violent revolution and oppression of the ancien regime. The other way demonstrates a more logical, peaceful path to follow. Change over time is Burke’s argument towards the greater good.Burke wins this debate with an overwhelming tide of votes, only further proving how the loss of history will end poorly for this nation.
Revolution in France. He says that the “rights” that revolutionaries claim to be aiming for are really only destroying their actual natural rights in the effort. In their claims of these rights, they destroy what little civility and hope they have in a futile effort. He presents a clear and reasonable argument to why the French Revolution will only end in disaster. He follows the principle stating that history is necessary for a government to succeed. Paine on the other
revolution and oppression of the ancien regime. The other way demonstrates a more logical, peaceful path to follow. Change over time is Burke’s argument towards the greater good.Burke wins this debate with an overwhelming tide of votes, only further proving how the loss of history will end poorly for this nation.
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