A Modest Proposal: Spontaneous or Serious Idea When I first read this essay I thought that this must have been a spontaneous idea, but after rereading this essay I wonder if he was really serious. Which ever may be, this man is pretty sick or very desperate to even think of such an idea. At first I could only think that this man must have just thought of this idea spontaneously, but had no intention of trying to have it introduced to society. Could this man really support such a proposal? To eat one-year-old babies because they are a burden to society is highly di