ENGL 2001 Chapter : Pg769 From Practical Argument Textbook
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Swift"s specific solution to help the economy and the people of ireland is for poor parents to start selling bastard children to the rich people to use as food. Swift explains that this specific observation of selling these children would benefit everyone in. It would benefit the poor parents who could not afford the children by ridding them of the responsibility in exchange for monetary reimbursement. It would also benefit the starving people because of the new recipes involving the children"s flesh. Lastly, it would benefit the government because it would fix the major issues in the economy and in ireland. Jonathan swift"s argument could be categorized as an ethical argument in the sense that everything he proposed could be seen as an easy and oddly ethical way to help the struggling economy in his country during this time.
