A Modest Proposal (Week 15)

For the blog this week we were supposed to read The Modest Proposal and write on some aspects of it. As totally strange as it would be to honestly consider this "modest proposal" in a serious manner, there are some issues in the U.S. today that could cause someone to argue this same point. Especially right now the economy is not doing very well in our country. This proposal could make a lot of money out of very little resources. That is if others would go along with this proposal. There are also a large number of families in the U.S. that have a great number of children without the money to completely care for all of them. This proposal could make it so these families are not using up resources such as welfare. Although canibalism is definitely a taboo in almost all societies, the author did a very good job at logically justifying his position. As horrible as his proposal seemed he was using logic and reasoning to come to his conclusion.