Consider Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal:” that
Ireland, in a time of economic troubles, sell its children as
food to the rich. Few would say, “this proposal is wrong
because his facts are in error.” Fewer yet would say, “this is
unethical because his satirical intent imputes a subtle air
of fictionality to the whole idea. It is false. It is fictional.
Thereby, it is wrong.” There are unconventional ethical
scholars, no doubt, who have no real quarrel with the
modest proposal itself, but very few who would say, well,
the flaw here, the reason this is wrong is, it’s false. It’s not
sufficiently real.
MULTIVERSE
Grail
