The underlying premise of the philosophy is to respect people’s autonomy, dignity and freedom

Sonia Sodha asks where a sense of moral values is rooted in secular rational liberalism, her question implying that she does not know the answer – even that such liberalism does not have an answer (“I am a rational liberal, yet a question about the sanctity of life floored me”, Comment).

This is evidence of two things: the false claim of the religions to have a monopoly on such an answer, and the woeful ignorance about the better and richer answer available, which is humanism.