Modest Proposal Blog

            Swift’s proposal was very interesting and also disturbing.  He starts out with imagery or poor people begging for money and food, which is the main problem that he’s hinting at in the piece.  He introduces the idea of eating children in replace for money for the poor parents.  He talked about eating children, preferably little children at the age of 1.  He claims that one boy could feed four girls.  To me, that’s really disturbing because I’d rather not think about eating people, because that would be cannibalism.  Swift discusses how the children don’t have to just contribute to food; it can also be clothing.  He says there are a lot of positives to eating children, such as preventing abortions, increasing the love and care of mothers, and less poor people.  The only downside he sees in all this is the fact that there will be less people in the ‘kingdom of England.”  He says it has nothing to do with him because his proposal doesn’t apply to his family.  I think he takes the sarcastic tone a bit too far because it gets very disturbing.  Also, the sarcastic tone makes it seem more of a joke rather than a very serious issue. 

Modest Proposal about financially selling organs

            EBay should just set up the organ part of the site now.  Everyone knows the government will eventually just find a secret way of financially selling organs but of course they won’t call it that… they’ll call it something else to hide it from everyone.  EBay should just set up the organ section so no one has to hide anything and there won’t be a black market for organs.  It’ll be just like looking for used cars – with descriptions like “liver 20 years of use, decent condition”.  People can just shop for their organs online, instead of waiting on extremely long lists to have their lives saved.  It’s the perfect solution.  I’m sure tons of people would be willing to sell their organs, especially for all that money.  EBay would be perfect, because it’s an auction- to see who wants to live more and pay more.  The only bad side would be that nothing’s guaranteed.  No medical professionals would be looking at your liver before you auction it off, but that’s the price you pay while shopping on EBay.  It’s only risking your life, so I mean it’s really worth it in the long run.