In The Fever his corrosive exercise in theatrical conscience-baiting, Wallace Shawn argues that virtually every transaction undertaken by an American city-dweller rests on a sturdy foundation of moral turpitude. Going about our everyday business -- hailing a taxi, scoring a reservation at a hot restaurant, taking a nice write-off for a donation to the opera -- we are condemning unseen victims in violence-ridden third world countries to lives of want and suffering.