Read the excerpt from The Crisis, Number / by Thomas Paine. "Not all the treasures of the world, so far as believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war,
for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or
threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to 'bind me in all cases whatsoever' to his absolute will, am |
to suffer it? What signifies it to me, whether he who does it a is a king or a common man; my countryman or
not my countryman; whether it be 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."
Which is the clearest and most objective summary of the excerpt?