By "physically determined alcoholics" do you mean alcoholics sitting in their own homes deliberately destroying their mental capacity, thus interering with a decent society? Is that the behavior you want criminalized?
Yes, I believe that suicide should be legally discouraged, although if successful, it’s obviously not punishable. It is self murder. Exceptions of course, like sacrificing oneself to save another, like killing a criminal to save another, same idea.
That alcoholic sitting in his house destroying his own mental capacity, that you describe, how did he get that alcohol? Does he work a job? Or is he on welfare? Or is he a lucky trust fund alky?
Even in this case, how does he cash his check? Does he have lackey go get his money and spend it for him, or does he go out on the roads? Oh, he lives within walking distance of his bank and liquor store, does he? Is that his barf you are slipping on? Is that his pee you smell? And allow me to note few of us are within walking distance of these places. I guarantee you he is on the roads. Hope he has a chauffeur!
Is that your harmless alcoholic threatening people who walk by? Passing out on the sidewalk for you to enjoy? Is that him exposing himself? Is that him in his DTs, shooting at the neighborhood road signs, thinking he sees bugs?
Where are his kids? Who is taking care of his aged parents? Is he paying his bills?
Did he leave something on the stove? Oh great, now the house is on fire. Has he mowed his grass lately? There goes the neighborhood.
How’s he doing at the job? Hope it has NO level of responsibility WHATSOEVER.
No one just sits in his rooom and drinks himself to death without every interacting with anyone or shirking a great deal of legitimate responsibility. Of course every alcoholic does not do all of the above. But it’s all part of the package, because we don’t all live on individual islands.
Drunk, stoned, tweaking, on acid - no, it should be illegal to do that to yourself. Cause when you do it to yourself, we are all paying a price at one point or another. Regardless of libertarian utopian fantasies.