No sympathy for a ‘hierarchy of regret’

BRENDAN CAFFERTY asks (Letters, February 4) why can’t I admit that “some awful things were done to Protestants in our name” during the War of Independence?

He is really asking me to be selective in my concern and compassion for its victims. I cannot oblige.

Compassion for those victims is like mercy and its “quality is not strain’d, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven” on all of them.