Wow! Where do you start in commenting on such a morbid proposal to address the poverty in a kingdom? Jonathan Swift in "A Modest Proposal" presented a very radical approach to poverty by suggesting that the poor of Ireland would be better off if they raised their children to be killed and eaten. Although his writing was intended to gather the attention of those in political power to address a serious problem in their society, he made serious detailed inferences on cannibalism and degraded the worthiness of the human existence.
I know Swift's reasoning woke up all of those who read it and challenge their duty to society to address the concerns of their poor for truly this was not the answer.
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