Why - when we are rich beyond the dreams of any earlier generation - are we not free?
Halldor Laxness teaches us that the poor rarely benefit from the generosity of the rich - which is mostly wasted on themselves.
It can be our duty to have some fun suggest CS Lewis and Kant.
Maimonides offers one of the most important accounts of how we reconcile charity and justice in practice.
The poem Euthanasia by Elizabeth Jennings imagines life after assisted dying becomes normal.