Machiavelli's Advice Research Paper

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I think Machiavelli’s advice can be construed as evil if it is taken in the wrong context, but I believe most of his advice was to be taken as general statements and not to be taken in the literal sense. While I agree in the example you gave of doing one thing in front of someone then doing something completely different behind there back is immoral in some cases, I believe Machiavelli meant that as a general statement in which sometimes one must tell someone one thing and do something different to protect them. An example of this type of behavior can be seen between parents and their children. Parents tend to hide the difficulties of life from their children, so they can grow and develop without the added stress of the complexity of real

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