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Reader discussion: 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

Public reader discussion about 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 by Jonathan Swift.

In 1729, Jonathan Swift wrote "A Modest Proposal" where he suggested that the poor should butcher and sell their children as food to the wealthy, saying: "A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled."

By meadowverse1998

Back in college I picked this up with zero context and didn’t even realize it was satire. I was… definitely confused, to put it mildly.