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19 LETTERS & EDITORIAL maltatoday | SUNDAY • 20 MAY 2018 Those Christians ostensibly striving to protect embryonic human life that is evidently only potentially a human child at such an early stage of devel- opment, should concentrate their efforts and energy in an endeavour to stop the annual, countless deaths of millions of children under the age of ten around the world, for lack of sim- ple food and water. These millions of children, born only to suffer and to subsequently perish annually, could otherwise be perfectly healthy human beings. Which inevitably makes one won- der whether it would not be better if these poor unfortunates were never born at all. And since I happen to mention perfectly healthy human beings, so were most of those thousands of Christians burnt alive publicly at the stake all over Europe, at the behest of the notorious Holy Inquisition, over a time-span that lasted more than six centuries. Incidentally all the Chris- tian victims who suffered this inhu- man and atrocious penalty were by and large innocent of any crime what- soever. Ironically the worst offenders were considered to be Christian peo- ple endowed with valuable and true scientific knowledge that ran counter to the Bible, a collection of ancient writings that is riddled with inaccura- cies and absurd tales. To cut a long story short, the insti- tution that for centuries was murder- ing its own innocent human adher- ents without compunction, has today morphed into a champion to save human embryos at any cost. Even today the repercussions of this shameful state of affairs that lasted incredibly many centuries, mainly be- cause education was a very rare com- modity, can still be felt in today's Mal- tese conservative society whenever progressive laws need to be enacted. Vladimir Cini Marsaxlokk It is easy to name and shame people just because they are young and naïve. The Equality Act prohibits discrimi- natory treatment based on age and my view is that this interpretation of the Act as construed by legal notice 181/2008 appeals to the way a system treats its users and influences them. This is an important principle in eth- ics in my opinion. We usually respond to the way we are treated. This hap- pens in various stages in our lives, and, there are limitations around us, for example... the weather is not al- ways ideal for driving around is it? Causality is rarely remembered as we avoid taking statements directly from the persons to understand their psychological roots. The age of preju- dices is not new to us, is it? We are all human, assume that we probably feel negative when there is a negative matter that runs out of our control, and, that we will feel happy when the results are resulting in happiness. For most part of our lives we were mere inputs to an education system, an employment registration system, inputs to an employer who policed and controlled that which we ought to do, and, if we chose free enterprise, there was someone up there who sent us notification as well. So I do not totally blame the person for his own destiny, even though the intention will now be questioned by the competent courts of law, presum- ably the criminal courts of law. Jonathan Camilleri Birkirkara I'm sure this newspaper's readers are in shock over the harrowing event of the week: the question they should ask is, are they ready for true zero tolerance on abusive driving? This government had better pull its socks up and start wielding that cane! Paul Debattista Gzira Not just human embryos Justice: a matter for the courts Mikiel Galea Letters & Clarifications Zero tolerance?