What makes good people do bad things? Melissa Dittmann summary

It's one of the strongest psychological forces driving human behavior. When people who feel they are good do bad things, cognitive dissonance makes them ignore this behavior because they can't tolerate the inconsistency between their behavior and their beliefs

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The question revolves around Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal where Swift criticizes the English government in the lights of the poor lives of Irish people. He ironically proposes Irish can solve their food problems by selling their children. Swift lashed out to the economic policy of the government. However, he himself does not put any economical solution. He only just uses satire in order to convey the truth.