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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by misinterpreted aggression Like when your

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little brother misinterpreted that swirly you gave him as aggression

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Come on Can't a guy shows love via the toilet

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Are traveling passes Thank you mak e a valley between

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the question love feared and something printed billing Okay well

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here's our question he rasmus would most likely agree with

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machiavelli that what And here a potential answers ready Well

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just from looking at portrait of the two thinkers we

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could probably conclude that they both agreed that gigantic pillowy

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sleeves were highly fashionable at the time and that smiling

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was for squares But we're looking for one of the

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four answers provided so well let's just get to it

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it can quickly be eliminated as neither author ever advocated

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for the elimination of the church In fact erasmus would

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be the first guy you'd find there because well he

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loved it back The guy was called the crowning glory

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of the christian humanists which means he was basically like

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the michael phelps of christian humanism at the time he

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rasmus did tend to focus on corruption but we know

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from the passage that machiavelli focused on other things namely

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how to become a strong and powerful leader and while

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becoming a strong leader by way of instilling fear onto

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the masses might be considered a tiny bit corrupt It

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does make for an entertaining movie plot line on that

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being said he doesn't fit but despite that neither of

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them said the dictator's air necessarily evil More specifically they

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didn't believe that dictators had to be evil to be

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effective Just because something is scary doesn't make it necessarily

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evil like your grandma's so called famous tuna casserole terrifying

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certainly evil Well only time will tell one thing they

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all agree on that writing can be misinterpreted as aggression

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even though neither of the two ever actively opposed the

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church The very fact that they focused on humanity got

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them into some trouble with the catholic church who put

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both of their books on the index of forbidden books

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list But they're not alone Many churches tried to ban

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the harry potter series seriously So either being banned by

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the church isn't that big of a deal or harry

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potter is actually an evil satanic texts that will one

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day turn an entire generation of children into devil worshippers

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But if that means we'd finally get to play some 00:02:21.853 --> [endTime] quidditch way probably be okay with it What

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