"You are responding to things I did not say, nor mean."
Sorry, I didn't mean to do that. I was responding to what I thought you said.
"I should have no authority to modify his actions through force, unless his activities affect me."
Do you really mean to abdicate all responsibility for protecting the weak? Shirley you support laws against raping women and child abuse, even though you are neither a woman nor a child.
"I don't claim to know what's best for others, only myself. I can tell them what the Bible says"
If the Bible tells you what's best for you, surely it tells others what's best for them.
"and let them form their own opinion."
We Christians do not believe in forced conversion, and proselytization must have its limits. However, if the opinion they form is contrary to what God has told us, then their opinion is wrong. It is not "their reality" or "their perception" or any other PC crap; it gains no validity simply by virtue of being a sincerely held opinion. It is simply incorrect. Wrong.
"I am libertarian."
At some point you will need to deal with the irreconcilable conflicts between that and Christianity.
"I am against seatbelt, carseat, helmet, anti-smoking and other such laws passed by people who know what is best for us."
I am too, but I am in favor of prohibitions on addictive drugs, hallucinogens, amphetamines, abortion, adultery, cohabitation, divorce, and the abandoning of spouses and children. You breed'em, you feed'em.
Further, I think we should treat Marxism in all its forms, under whatever guise, in the same way that the Germans now treat Nazism.
>>If the Bible tells you what's best for you, surely it tells others what's best for them.<<
Yes, but having free will, they have the God given right to choose whether or not to play by those rules. If anyone does utterly and completely do just that, they don't need the blood of Christ.
>>Do you really mean to abdicate all responsibility for protecting the weak? Shirley you support laws against raping women and child abuse, even though you are neither a woman nor a child<<
No, I believe in the concept of "your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins". I don't see it as protecting the "weak" however. I see it protecting all citizens from those who would do them harm. But if they want to harm themselves, or exercise risk (mountain climbing, bungee jumping, skiing, riding in a car without a seatbelt on, stepping into a bathtub without anti-skid stickers) that is utterly their business. And when I do it, it is utterly mine.
>>I am too, but I am in favor of prohibitions on addictive drugs, hallucinogens, amphetamines, abortion, adultery, cohabitation, divorce, and the abandoning of spouses and children. You breed'em, you feed'em.<<
I do not feel those things fit in the same category.
For example, taking drugs is something you do to yourself. Adultery, divorce, cohabitation and abandoning of spouses and children are something you do with/to someone else.
I am in favor of legalizing the former group, and making the latter illegal.