Sir, – An ideology that promotes a hedonistic type of society should not get unchallenged prominence. I refer to an article (Opinion, July 14th) by Dil Wickremasinghe which concluded with the words “enjoying our body and all its infinite pleasures”.
The body can play a vital part in our personal fulfilment but not if it is seen as a pleasure tool. While we may talk or joke about sex, it is essentially something private requiring a sensitivity and appropriateness not supplied by common discourse. Any discussion on an important issue should be based on what is right or wrong, but it seems that a sense or right and wrong is being replaced by notions of equality. This is regrettable, because apart from the fact that right and wrong can never be equal, there can be no morality without this sense.
Without morality we are all losers as society disintegrates with everything becoming equally meaningless and pleasures far from simple. – Yours, etc,