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If you can't change the person's mind, to avoid an argument you both have to agree to disagree
Answer:
A cat climbed a tree................
Answer:
He thinks that his taxes pay for the prisons and workhouses, so he thinks that he doesn't need to donate anything to charity. And he suggests that if they would rather die, "they had better do it".
The narrator gives the reader no clue as to who is saying which thing or who the instigator of the conversation is.