War In Thomas Paine's Pamphlet 'Common Sense'

Major conflict between a colony and its mother country can lead to war. With war death is inevitable, which is why war must be prevented at all cost. In Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense”, got many colonists questioning British’s control and authority of the colonies. Thomas Paine’s pamphlet suggests that we should push for independence because colonist are beginning to get very upset with the new taxations imposed without our consent. We must find a compromise with our mother country and breaking away from it when it needs us most should be the last thing on our mind.
Many of us may think that the mother country raising our taxes is unreasonable. Since after all we are able to defend ourselves from an invasion with our militias and armories. However, the reason that we were even able to build militias, armories and everything that we have built was because of Britain’s exploration and expansion of the new world. The cost of developing and transporting people to the colonies can be very costly. You can view taxation as a form of reimbursement for all that Britain …show more content…
Hundreds of thousands of people will die, so instead of trying to become independent we should just try to compromise. Britain will not back down from war because they believe that they will win. While our colonies will fight in order to protect what we have. If we get into a war with our mother country the odds are not in our favor. We are heavily outgunned and outnumbered. Not only will many die, but the cost of war can be very high. The reason for Britain need to tax the colonies is because of the heavy debt they are in after fighting the French - Indian war. The war put Britain in a 150 million pound debt and they are currently struggling to pay it off. If we fight Britain we could be in the very exact situation. War should be tried to be prevented at all