Moral intolerance

PAUL KOKOSKI (‘Euthanasia a rejection of God’, Letters, June 11) calls suffering part of a “loving plan” and condemns euthanasia as being against the natural instinct to live.

Where does this leave the Catholic Church’s condemnation of premarital sex, which is also a natural instinct?

He asserts also that euthanasia is a rejection of God. So what? If someone wants to reject euthanasia on religious grounds, so be it — but that is a choice for themselves, not for others.

The idea that the precepts of Mr Kokoski’s religion can decide the morality of an action for people of other faiths, or none, rankles. Such an attitude is an affront to tolerance and should be opposed in all its forms.

Frank Egan

20 Ashdale Park

South Douglas Road

Cork