His intentions may have been innocent, but as soon as the main character started his exposition as to, for example, how human scientists made assumptions about the evolution of the human eye, the whole thing came crashing down. There are many people, especially famous who write locke, I propose having a famous demosthenes isn't a bad thing. Demosthenes is a rabble rouser, sure there are people who read demosthenes and believed him, but those were the people who would believe that anyway, while anybody who disagreed with demosthenes or was on the fence was more inclined to agree with locke.

OSC invented the whole situation and explains it to people in a way that shows he knows how people thing. In that novel he made locke famous by his arguments with demosthenes. OSC's official online persona in writing essays is such a demosthenes, Think about it. its his profession he put many years of work into his writing. I don't believe that he isn't such a good writer that he can do that on purpose, He teaches many writing classes and wrote a few books on writing. I believe anybody reading it who is unsure will see that I'm not like this, I don't hate gay people, I must either be fore gay rights, or stay undecided. For example, an essay he wrote about gay's. I have made this argument before, but I believe his essays are written only to influence the person who is unsure about a subject. Remember, Heinlein promoted over throwing the government not only in some essays, but also in many novels. Know any others? Message #scifi and let your friendly mods know!īut based on many of his novels, you can disprove most of his essays, or at least show that he thinks on both sides of the street.

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