[Aquinasfan]

So if a person asks you to shoot him in the head, do you think it should be legal to shoot him? After all, it is voluntary. It's rather similar to paying a person to expose themselves to AIDS.

No, it's quite dissimilar, as the death rates are vastly different. We pay policemen and firemen to expose themselves to life-threatening situations; is that wrong?

Policemen and firemen lay their lives on the line in order to secure the greater social good, to prevent the greater loss of life.

A consensual agreement to engage in anal sex, on the other hand, while life risking, does not otherwise promote the greater good of society.

[Know your rights]

Policemen and firemen lay their lives on the line in order to secure the greater social good, to prevent the greater loss of life.

A consensual agreement to engage in anal sex, on the other hand, while life risking, does not otherwise promote the greater good of society.

Boxers have died, and at least one football player been paralyzed, to entertain us. I assume you'll want these sports banned?

[Modernman]

A consensual agreement to engage in anal sex, on the other hand, while life risking, does not otherwise promote the greater good of society.

People do not have a duty to promote the greater good of society. They only have a duty to follow a society's laws.

[freeeee]

does not otherwise promote the greater good of society

Everything individuals do must somehow benefit others? That's the ultimate in entitlement theory.