I WAS interested to read columnist Peter Mullen's comments on the "medicalisation of morality" (Echo, Apr 29). I wonder if he has noted, as I have, the parallel phenomenon of the "dogmatisation of prejudice"?

This appears to involve the adoption of a ragbag of vicious and jejune generalisations about the poor, the ill, the pacific, and indeed anyone who fails to embrace the ethics of dog-eat-dog; and by traducing the spirit of the New Testament, falsely dignifying them with the name of Christianity.

I suppose in both cases, the benefit of holding such views is that they save the holders from the serious thought for which they are so evidently ill-equipped.

Peter Taylor, Elwick, Hartlepool.