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In Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," he suggests that the English eat starving Irish babies in order to curb overpopulation.

Swift did not really want the English to become cannibals, he merely wanted to point out an injustice in the British society.

The English ruled the Irish during Swift's time. The English were the landowners in Ireland, and the Irish were peasants who barely had enough to live off of. It is the English ruthlessly feasting off of the work of the Irish that Swift compares to cannibalism, while saying that actual cannibalism is only slightly worse than what the English were already doing.

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