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A Modest Proposal (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 week ago by Plum to c/wikipedia

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

The reading is a short pamphlet linked below. Warning that, for a work from the 1700's, the reveal paragraph is pretty nauseating.

It is probably more relevant today in the US as a modest proposal to the abortion problem that it also claims to solve!