I HAVE noticed a disturbing trend in letter writers in various newspapers recently. More and more people are accusing others of intolerance and even bigotry when all they have done is to express a different opinion from the writer.
Take last week’s letter from James Cadle complaining about the letter from Rev Peter Simpson in the previous week’s paper. I thought that Rev Simpson’s letter was very polite and gentle and I can’t understand why anybody should think it was intolerant. He simply expressed a different point of view, a healthy thing in a civilised society.
Just because somebody has a different point of view from yours doesn’t automatically make them intolerant.
Chris Burmajster, Andrews Way, Marlow Bottom
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