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If we cannibalize our children, then what legacy do we have?  In 1729, Dr. Jonathan Swift wrote an essay entitled “A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick,” a horrendous satire of the predicament suffered by the Irish people.  The ideas that Swift introduces are abhorrent to the intended audience, as well as anyone who would read it.  Swift knows this as he writes it; he identifies various socioeconomic problems, the main one being starvation of the poorest of people in 18th century Ireland.  He exposes the hypocrisy or irony of the atrocities that the English are forcing on the Irish day in and day out through the detailing of his solution for these issues that were currently facing the Kingdom of Ireland. Breeding, fattening and selling babies of the poor Irish for cannibalistic purposes to the wealthy English - Really!?!  With no children, then there is no legacy.

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