The Independent - London, January 11th, 1997
In Wallace Shawn's one-person play, The Fever, Clare Coulter talks of finding herself drawn towards a beautiful beggar in a poor country. There's money in her purse; she could give the beggar some of it. "And a voice says, `Why not all of it? Why not give her all that you have?'" One argument against giving the beggar all that you have - in the literal Christian sense of "all" - is that you would simply be swapping places with this person. For the sake of a few minutes' relief from middle-class liberal guilt, you would be putting the beggar in the same morally dubious position with regard to p...
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