Consider the following passage:

i do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration that of the hundred and twenty thousand children already computed, twenty thousand may be reserved for breed, whereof only one-fourth part to be males; which is more than we allow to sheep, black cattle or swine.

why might swift have included this passage?

a. to criticize a certain way of thinking about the poor
b. to show that the narrator thinks of the children of the poor as a kind of livestock
c. to show the reader that the narrator is not a decent person
d. all of the above