The editorial ‘An island of contradictions’ (July 30) reminded me of what G.K. Chesterton had written on October 23, 1909: “Men do not differ so much about what things they call evil; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.”

Thanks for the straight-to-the-point editorials.

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