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Also, he states that he is not bent on his real ideas alone to fix the problem. Therefore, he says if there are any better ideas, that others should do it. He did not refute the opposing claims to leave room for those who may have better ideas than Swift and therefore, he is not so bent on his ideas. The weakness in Swift’s argument is that it does not account for how the people would feel about helping the poor. They may not feel the need to do anything for the poor; such as feeding them or giving them food. If they abuse what they get they will be equally just as poor. Also, those who may be offered a job of some sort may not want to work. The strength of his argument is that he has a general idea of what would be done to fix the poor problem and has a series of suggestions on how to do it. Jonathan Swift is trying to fix the problem with the people that are starving or are without clothing. He uses satire for an outrageous claim about eating children to give the poor money in order to fix the problem. His real suggestions however, are general sense of how to help the impoverished people in Ireland and get the English people to no longer oppress the
