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Letter: Moral issues even in private

Sir: Peter Jay - with such certainty - identifies a moral boundary: consenting people's private behaviour cannot raise moral issues (Letters 10 June). Well, that immediately rules out any moral qualms about abortion; and if we get together - in private - and torture the pet goat, why, that's no moral issue at all. Oops, silly me, perhaps my educational deficiency is coming out; I must take as read - I hope - that Jay's morally neutral behaviour excludes embracing animal suffering.

Still, if we got together - in private - and one of us, aged 16, in depression, consents to the rest killing her, or injecting addictive drugs, that raises no moral ...

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