Swift proposes his idealized, communal society in which children are no longer a burden to their parents, no one is poor, money is not allocated to education, and everyone works so that no one is a burden. Jonathan Swift writes logically and inserts his own logic to appeal to authority figures. Swift discusses the idea that children would grow up to be beggars like their mothers and belittle society (Swift 2637). Swift says she is able to specifically name what Dublin's children will do when they grow up and discusses how their actions will impact society. Jonathan Swift writes about many different things about Dublin's future that may not be true. Another logical fallacy Swift uses is the idea that two wrongs create a right. This idea emerges in the comparison between children and animal commodities: “Twenty thousand children may be reserved for the race… which is more than we allow for sheep, black cattle or pigs… children are rarely the fruit of marriage, a circumstance not highly regarded by our savages” (Swift 2634). It indirectly claims that a baby product could be very profitable similar to the pork belly products market. Jonathan Swift portrays the evils of childhood hunger with the evils of poverty. This description emphasizes the crude humor that would solve Ireland's humanitarian problems. The proposed idea of freeing all children is a very different idea from a real attempt to solve Ireland's humanitarian crisis, much like English feudalism as an aspiration met with harsh condemnation.
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