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Refutes, because he himself owned a lot of alcohol, but he wrote many songs about temperance and how drinking is bad. The two ideas go against each other and it makes him have moral imperfection.

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Ben Franklin was far from moral perfection as he would manipulate and play mind games with almanac writers that would compete with his own, he had pretty much lied to then which and drove them crazy that way which is indeed a sin

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Refutes because he lead soldiers and bribed they with booze to go to church. He got them to live a better life by giving them alcohol which has the power to kill them eventually.

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Refute, because he bribed the military into having better moral decisions. He did things such as gaving them rum and other things to go to church.

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refutes, because he wrote songs about drinking

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Ben Franklin is morally imperfect because he wrote songs about drunk people and drinking but being morally perfect was about temperance.

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ben franklin is morally imperfect because he wrote about temperance and he owns a lot of alcohol himself.

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How Ben Franklin in the 3rd instance was bullying the guy about being dead went against his ideal to be sincere.

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He was not morally perfect or at least didn't try because he lied about not being a drinker. He lied because he had a whole seller of alcohol in his house.

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Benjamin Franklin tried to predict the date of death of a rival author. When he was wrong, the rival author began taunting him for it and Benjamin Franklin claimed that he was talking nonsense so he must be dead. This supports the claim that he lived trying to reach moral perfection because he couldn't admit that he was wrong.

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He was not morally perfect or at least wasn't even trying because if you let people experiment on people's dead bodies and bones in your own house, are you really trying?

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He tried to prove people and trees were magnetized, this proved he wasnt achieving moral perfection because he was accusing people and trees.

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Benjamin Franklin isn't morally perfect because he tried to predict the death of a competing author. Once he was proven wrong he bullied the author until the day he died.

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He is not perfect because he made fun of this man till he actually died

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One of Franklin's core values was temperance but he kept gallons of booze in his house. He also gave rum to his soldiers (in Franklin's defense, it was payment for going to church)

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Benjamen Franklin

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Bones in the Basement
This refutes the idea that he lived his life trying to reach moral perfection because, while he did rent rooms to people to help them, he allowed a man to steal bodies from a graveyard and experiment on them and then buried the bodies in his basement.

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Benjamin Franklin said that wine was “constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy,” he also said that it brought the genesis flood about.

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Refutes,

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Ben Franklin strived to be morally perfect based on how in passage 2 he is always experimenting and trying new things.

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He refutes it because in the Drinkers dictionary, it goes against his morals by writing it.

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Balloon experiments, he did weird things with the hot air balloons.Refutes, Ben had a bunch of beer in his basement and he did weird things that went against his virtues

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I believe Franklin lived his life trying to reach moral perfection because he never gave up on his dreams. Just like when him and his son chased a tornado to prove to everyone they were real and made from wind.

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Refutes, Franklin was asked to test a disease on a little boy to see if people and trees were magnetized. The little boy ended up screaming and shaking

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Ben was not trying to live his life morally perfect because he had a wine cellar in his basement. This is not modeling being morally good because he was not following temperance, which he wrote about.

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It goes against the idea that he lived his life trying to reach moral perfection because he drank excessively and the drinking songs. He was not living to perfection.

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Drinking songs were not a good example of a good person because during that time temperance was trying to be practiced because of how big an issue it became.

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Helping to train dogs while he was a commander was a good example of him trying to be a good person

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The drinking songs. This proves he wasn't living up to his moral standards because he wasn't living up to temperance

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The Drinkers Dictionary. Franklin did not live his life trying to reach moral perfection. This is because he had an entire basement of liquor and had written a book about words for getting wasted. If he was trying to be morally perfect he would not have tried or encouraged excessive drinking.

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Tornado Chaser because he seemed like he wanted to be morally perfect by living life to the fullest

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He shouldn't have taken information that wasn't his own like he did with the frog experiment. He never performed the experiment and he also never gave credit to the person who did.

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Tornado Chaser
Based on what it says he does I believe that Ben Franklin supports the idea that he's trying to reach his life goals.

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Based on the article, it seems that it refutes the idea that he lived his life trying to reach moral perfection. He went against the Temperance by how he collects alcohol bottles (1,200). He also bribes men with alcohol for them to go to church. He went against his virtues that he set for himself.

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Refutes-He went against most of his own virtues by drinking a lot and having 15 bodies in his basement.

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Franklin wrote a book that was basically one big joke and made fun of astrology. This refutes his goal of perfecting his morality.

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BF drank excessive amounts of booze causing his character to be an all over the place, like when he would leave top secret documents all over his house.

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His life refutes the idea that he lived his life trying to become a perfectionist since he bribed his soldiers with booze in order for them to go to church

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I chose #6 and this goes against him trying ti be perfect because he would go outside naked for everyone to see and had dead bodies in his house. That makes him look crazy-- not perfect.

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Ben Franklin Became the first storm chaser after chasing a tornado with his son on a horse

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BF became the first storm chaser, and I think this made him imperfect because he wasn't afraid of death.

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Ben Franklin made up a joke about the Almanacks. He made people think the Mr. Leed was going to die on some specfic day. This is not morally perfect because he lied to people and made up a big joke.

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Tornado Chaser

I believe that Ben Franklin did live his life trying to reach perfection. With him chasing down tornadoes it made him

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Ben Franklin wanted the soldiers of the French Revolutiion to be morally perfect, so he provided them with booze if they went to church to better himself. This is proof he wanted to be morally perfect, because he encouraged others to do it also, because he thinks it's the right thing.

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Him being a troll and making the poor Richard's Almanac to fool people into believing that an important figure will die when mercury and the sun come together is refuting his rode to moral perfection.

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Storm chaser- support because he wanted to figure out and know for himself what a tornado was made out of

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Commander-- Refute: Ben Franklin would bribe his soldiers with alcohol to go to Church. This refutes rationalism because he isn't striving for perfection for himself, but he is striving for others.

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He would use rum to convince people to go to church

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This does not support him being morally perfect. He took part in an anatomy class in this teachers basement. They dissected the bodies and the bones were scattered. That's messed up and not really the moral thing to do.

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Refute: He bribed the military to have good moral actions such as going to church with rum and other incentives. This goes agaisnt the temperance of drinking in moderation

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I think it was a refute because even though he made a pamphlet, he created some ideas that weren't helpful like chasing tornadoes. Even though he realized they were made out of wind, all he did was chase them to get a better perspective.

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supports because he showed his honest moral values on sharing his thoughts/secrets even if it would cost him

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He tried to keep his morals, but he ended up breaking all of them, he drank a lot and getting for getting drunk, then wrote about how to get drunk the best way possible

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Supports because King Louis XVI appointed Franklin to make sure the town would be safe by doing a experiment making sure they knew what type of energy was going on and what it felt like from Mesmer's energy.

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there were 15 dead bodies in his basement also hewson worked in his basement and he of course had to know about it

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he should off and that refutes Moderation because it was a little extreme for him

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Ben Franklin chased a tornado and even came close enough to whip it, therefore he refutes the value of Moderation.

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Refutes because tying someone to a balloon to make them faster is not just or sincere

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Refutes because he sometimes went against his virtues and disobeyed them. For #7, he didn't avoid conflict unlike his virtue of tranquility.

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Benjamin Franklin refutes the value of Moderation, because he chased a dangerous tornado, therefore pushing his extremes to prove a point.

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Refute-2- Tying someone to a balloon and chair would not be very sincere and moderation is avoiding extremes.

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Through his balloon experiments this supports his virtues by his good will to try and resolve things.

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Supports because he was appointed by King Louis XVI to conduct a experiment to make sure the people in the town are ok.

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Franklin and Joseph Guillotin to figure out weater mesmer was a fraud.

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15 dead bodies were found in his basement which is against unnecessary actions.

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He supports his virtues because, he lead an army to protect other people for there own well being

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He refutes because Ben Franklin talks about temperance in the autobiography which is contradicted by how he acts in his life.

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He went to the extreme and possibly risked his life for science

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15 dead bodies were found in his basement which contradicts number 13 "Humility".

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he was appointed by King Louis to conduct experiments

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he did not avoid extremes because he chased tornadoes

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Refutes because

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refute: virtue 5
he showed off his armonica at parties.

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We could have lied about his experiment he tried with the kite and lightning

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3- if he had a place for each thing such as business he woudn't have shared classified info w everyone

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refutes his values especially his core value silence because he played tricks and what he said to Leed was not beneficial to him.

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It refutes his 13 virtues that he made because fro example, in virtue 5, he showed off his armonica to parties and not living in moderation

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Benjamin Franklin refutes the idea that he lived a perfect life due to the fact he talked about private information with other people (Failed silence)

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refutes because he played tricks on people and does not benefit others

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Jacob V
He led an army and fought alongside in the French Indian War

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because he played tricks on people and poor values on trying to benefit others.

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he served as a military officer without pay

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Bf talks about highly classified info to the other side

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He would discuss classified things

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BF did not practice cleanliness by taking air baths.
-Kielee

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BF would discuss highly classified info in the open
-Vincent W.

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He refuted his virtues because one of them was humility and living like God would.

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(BF was a Troll)
He spoke on how not to speak without purpose and not cause harm. Yet, he spoke to attack others even when unnecessary.

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One of his points was moderation and having 1200 bottles of wine doesn't sound like avoiding extremes.
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BF didnt practice cleanliness by taking air baths, and temperance because he would drink alot and write songs about wine. -Tammy

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he tried to scare illness out of people giving them  convulsions (Ciara)

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He led the troops in the French Indian war-Charlie Le

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Refuted his list because one of his virtues was humility.

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Refuted his list because one of his virtues was humility.

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Kyle M

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"He discussed highly classified matters in the open" He spoke about something that played a disadvantage
to the other side- Megan M.

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In the tenth point he stated that wine was good and was collected it which went AGAINST his idea of temperance which says to not drink until dullness or to not get drunk.
He supports his idea to be morally perfect when he participated in military work with no pay. This showed frugality because he was economical without pay so he benefited his nation without pay