Swift uses emotional and ethical appeals to make his argument. By swift jokingly proposing that we eat the children he is appealing to paternal feelings. He knows that many will be emotionally affected by his suggestion because no one would want their own child to be someone’s’ dinner. Swift wanted to draw attention to the issue and he assumed most, if not all, would believe it is unethical to eat another human being. I believe he used illogical reasoning and showed no remorse in order to get peoples
