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I would be ok with people wrecking one's health on the condition that it means they automatically lose any rights to the state's help (health care, housing, any kind of direct cash handouts etc.). I don't think we should other people's stupidity. What's more, it creates a moral hazard (it's ok to wreck my own life, as the nanny state will come to rescue me anyway).

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So paying for their prison time isn't a direct cash handout to the prison industrial complex?

As for your point of view I really have to reply with a more aggressive "Too fucking bad, you're paying one way or another". I run into too many people with your point of view that if you just pretend like this wrecked human doesn't exist that they immediately vanish from the reality in which we exist and no longer present a problem to anyone.

That’s a very fine line to walk. The same reasoning could be applied to speeding (actively endangering others), overeating (actively endangering yourself), hunting, snowboarding, skydiving (or any other activity which increases your likelihood of having and accident and hence burdening the health care system beyond the national average).

I agree, but we should start having this discussion nonetheless. As is now, the state is encouraging dangerous and reckless behaviours, which is contrary of its intentions.

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