miércoles, 12 de diciembre de 2018

A modest proposal in values fairness and justice by Valentino gomez

A modest proposal, to begin with, is a story that i believe after reading it, does not show any signs nor characteristic traits of the values called justice and fairness. This story is too cruel to have these two important values. The definition of these two words should be left clear before starting by stating why in my opinion i believe that those two values are not pointed out. Justice is the condition of being morally correct or right, it is fairness in the way people are treated or dealt with; while Fairness is an impartial and just treatment or behaviour without favouritism or discrimination. It is the quality of being reasonable and right, doing what is correct. Being fair is being equal with people, not choosing someone over some selfish reasons, but to be reasonable about it and about the choices taken. The reason why i did not see these two values in the story is because none of the characters in it have it. No one is fair to no one. Jonathan swift made this proposal where he said that the wealthy have the right to buy the children of the poor. The reason he made this proposal was because he saw that Ireland was entering into an economic crisis and there was overpopulation. And his only resolution was to feed poor 1 year okd babies to the wealth and that way there would be less people in the country and the poor would have more money to be able to feed all of their other kids. Now this is a very unfair proposal and decision made by Swift since the poor families are gonna go through a lot just for economical and overpopulation reasons. He should have found another way to find a solution ti this problem not by killing some innocent babies. It is very unfair for them to be killed and fed to the wealthy, after all babies have not conscious of what is happening around them and can not do anything about it but let it happen. This decision made by him is very selfish, cruel, and harmful for the poor people living in Ireland. After all Swift does not know what those families are going through since he doesn’t have kids of his own. He proposed to the mothers to stop working and feed their children a lot of food so they could have more meat on their skin and they would be enough to divide in four plates and to be used as accessories. In other words, the horrible proposal that Jonathan made is just called being unfair towards his people.

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