But Britain is the parent country, say some. Then the more shame upon her conduct. Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their families. What does that mean

It means that the behavior of Britain wild (savage- like) which was describe that only an untamed animal will wage a war on his families.

Explanation:

This is the principle of common sense where  mother -country  demand the right to obedience from the child which was used to describe how Britain behavior did not portray her as a mother country to the child like they are families or allies, hence the child needed protection from her untamed or wild attitude.

The above excerpt is related to Thomas pain argument that the  13 colonies who believe they do not need the support of Britain to advance the growth of their colonies.

elizabeth loftus conducted a study to observe the reliability of eyewitnesses during the 1970s. their baseline was to define how accurate are the recollections of eyewitnesses.

her studies do not support the use of eyewitness. loftus mentions in her work that we are not required to recall some experiences, meaning that rarely an individual eyewitness testimony is trustworthy. a good example is presented in her work, where all individuals watched a video and were than asked "about how fast were the cars going when they hit/smash? ". the testimonies changed based on the word she used to make the question (hit or smash), proving the fragility.

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