We’re all liable for Corrie’s death

“But now that he had died, any threat that he might have posed as an unkempt figure in a doorway was gone. He could no longer extend a cup with the threat of imposing on your conscience.”

Michael Clifford (Opinion, December 4) challenges us all with a searingly candid appraisal of our communal/ societal ambivalence and derogation relating to those on the margins.

He parses the late Jonathan Corrie’s debilitating demise with due sensitivity, but equal cogency.