I think it depends on how old I would be at the time of release of this pamphlet. If I was of the age I am now I would probably have dismissed it fairly easily as "just another one of those tiresome writings the old men have published", because I honestly do not think I would have understood the weight and power of his suggestion. However, if I was a mother at that time, I would be completely outraged! To think that a man could even humorously suggest something of that degree at a time of such hardship is outrageous. I would not have found the humor in it, I most likely would have found it highly distasteful.