I THOUGHT I had heard it all, but my eyes nearly popped out of my head on reading your article (Brave Caroline won’t let condition stop her, Oxford Mail,  August 15).

Miss Earnshaw has an extremely rare cardiac disorder which could kill her at any moment, and which has been responsible for the tragic deaths of her mother and her brother at the age of 14.

In her own case, the sole chance of survival would appear to have been the so far successful heart transplant – and who would begrudge her that?

Indeed, only the utterly heartless would fail to feel the utmost sympathy for her.

Nonetheless, we learn that she has produced, deliberately or apathetically, a daughter with the same defect, and, when challenged to justify giving birth to a child running the risk of developing the same horrendous start to life, responded that there was only a 50/50 chance that it would be afflicted.

Well, that’s okay, ‘Brave Caroline’ – pretty good odds!

How irresponsible can anyone get?

Still, at least young Keira has a mother fully aware of her probable plight, even if the latter, by her own admission, could easily drop dead at any moment.

I do not doubt ‘Brave Caroline’s’ sincerity when it comes to her fundraising efforts, but if anyone really believes that such charitable gestures in any way compensate for the likely terrible suffering she has inflicted upon her offspring, they have no place in this multiverse.

DAVID DIMENT, Riverside Court, Oxford