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To: dsc

You are responding to things I did not say, nor mean.

What I mean is that although I can have an opinion on another persons actions, I should have no authority to modify his actions through force, unless his activities affect me. I don't claim to know what's best for others, only myself. I can tell them what the Bible says, and let them form their own opinion.

I am libertarian. I am against seatbelt, carseat, helmet, anti-smoking and other such laws passed by people who know what is best for us.


88 posted on 12/07/2006 10:45:56 AM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Naziism was in 1937.)
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To: RobRoy

"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.


105 posted on 12/07/2006 11:19:12 AM PST by dsc
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