A Modest Proposal

            After reading this passage I honestly do not even know what to think.  That was the strangest and most awful thing I have ever heard.  The thought of killing your own child/children in order to make money for yourself just blows me away.  I also do not understand why, it explains that the people who would do this will have no money therefore killing their child for meat will make them money.  However they would be feeding the fattening and hearty meals in order to make them fat.  If they have the money to make this food then why do they need to kill their children?  They should have enough money to keep them alive.  It later explains how it would better the nation on page 1205 “I profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavoring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the public good of my country…”  I do not see how in any way killing children would better a country.  Also, the thought of cannibalism being okay in a nation is awful.  This passage was frightening and very disturbing, I had never realized that something like this would be thought to help or better a country.