It's always been legal to hurt yourself. Except for brief fascist flings, alcohol and tobacco have been legal since they were discovered. Dangerous sports have a long history and occupations like mining and lumbering carry an inherent risk of injury.
It's always been legal to hurt yourself. ... alcohol and tobacco have been legal since they were discovered. Dangerous sports have a long history and occupations like mining and lumbering carry an inherent risk of injury.
There is nothing inherently immoral about alcohol or tobacco or sports car racing or lumberjacking. No one ever died from smoking one cigarette. The same cannot be said for engaging in one act of homosexual sodomy.
Even so, something is not immoral because it is dangerous. Something is immoral because God says it is immoral. Hence if lumberjacking always resulted in death it would be immoral, too, since suicide is immoral.