I honestly feel like “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift was really interesting and funny, because the whole idea was absurd. Just thinking of selling children is basically like slavery, forcing them to do something when they can’t protect themselves. The idea for trying to relieve the poor and pleasure the rich is a good one, but there are a lot of other ways that can help the poor. Using 20,000 kids for breeding, and then selling the other 100,000 children for meat? I didn’t know people were that desperate that they thought of cannibalism. Even though there are a lot of poor people in the United States, there are still some ways to solve the problem. There are a lot of organizations set up to help the poor, and a lot of shelters for the homeless. I also wonder why Catholics are the enemy, because how would the idea lessen the number of a Catholics. Also, the children wouldn’t have been useless. They could grow to become a person that could revolutionize their country, since 120,000 children is a lot, so at least a few of them would be able to help improvise ways to bring Ireland out of its slump. And not everyone would benefit from this, since eating children would probably decrease the survival rate, because cannibalizing would make you sick. I would compare this idea to slavery, as people were forced to do work for their masters, and then were sold in the market, and separated from this families. These children would be in the same boat as they would also be used for something they couldn’t do anything about, and probably wouldn’t even understand what was happening. This is what I think about “A Modest Proposal”.
