Modest Proposal: Reaction

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, is about a proposal to the people London. He is asking the lower class to give their children to the rich land owners. He wants to make the nation better and get rid of the bad economic shape they are in and the take away the burden of the parents. He found an easy method to do it; he will get the parents of the poor children to sell their children to the rich as a food source. He wants get the undernourished children to get fat so they can be sold to the rich land owners.

To be very honest, It's very disturbing that somebody would think that. No doubt he raises some very good points, but we should never forget our morals and ethics, after all we are "HUMAN BEINGS" not animals. Eating human flesh no matter cooked, boiled or fried is very fatal. You can get a very rare disease called "kuru". Kuru was first discovered in Papua New Guinea in the Fore tribe. They practiced ritual cannibalism in which they believed that a person's soul can never leave its body until the whole body is consumed. The disease spread tremendously in the 1950's but started to decline in early 1960's when were made aware of the situation. So, even though the passionate writer makes some valid but disturbing points, cannibalism can cause "Kuru" which is incurable. Although the suggested route will get the population under control but then we'll have another problem 'UNDER POPULATION'.