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The flesh of infants may be used as

gloves and summer boots
• Swift objects to eating girls as old as 14
because they would serve better as
breeders, and because people would
object that it is "a little bordering on
cruelty"
Although there are many suffering
"aged, diseased," or injured people,
nothing needs to be gone for them
because they are already dying "as fast
as can be reasonably expected"
Poor Irish tenants, who have already sold
their crops and cattle to pay the rent,
will now be able to pay by selling their
children

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Answer: Humans only care about something being slaughtered if its "theirs." Or they see it as their own in any sort of way. We care less about the neighbor's pet being hit by a car that "our: pet being hit by a car. The same goes for children. "Their" child is being stolen, it makes the person feel sad, but mostly pity, for the 'owners' of that child. "My" child is being stolen, makes the person much more concerned about the situation BCS the child was "Thiers."

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