Ben Smith
6/16/15
"A Modest Approach" is written by Jonathan Swift and it proposes a solution to the hardships of his homeland. His homeland was going through over-population which intern caused them to have a lot of poverty. His solution was to sell the newborns and infants to landlords, which would allow the birthers to gain wealth intern for their children which would stimulate the economy because it would give people who would other wise have no money a fair amount of it. Also it would provide ample nutrition for the landlords and purchasers, and maybe the biggest positive out of the situation of all it would allow the population to get back to a normal level. One aspect of his writing that I found interesting is how he took something as bad as "eating babies" and made it into something that if you were desperate enough could actually sound like a well-though-out idea. He provides excellent stipulations and reasons for why it would work, this by no means I think it is a good idea, I just feel that he makes it sound believable.
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