Humanism can offer us answers in the assisted dying debate | Letters

Sonia Sodha asks where a sense of moral values is rooted in secular rational liberalism.

Sodha implies she does not know the answer even that such liberalism does not have an answer.

Humanism premises the intrinsic dignity of the human person, enjoins a generous and empathetic attitude to our fellows in the human story.

Kenan Malik suggests that social workers and police struggled to empathise’ with the girls because of their background and class’ (“The right is trying to rewrite history with its toxic rhetoric on Britain ’s rape gangs”, Comment.

Richard Baker , Professor Emeritus, University of Leicester , says a major difficulty in these cases is that child victims may not see themselves as such.