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

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Swift's savage satirical proposal to solve Irish poverty through infanticide reads like a logical economic argument, forcing readers to confront the brutality already embedded in indifference toward the poor. This slim pamphlet remains one of literature's most effective weapons: a mirror held up to society's own inhumanity.

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