The purpose of the law is not to legislate in or out every conceivable behavior up to infinity. Just because the law gives people credit for not being complete window-licking morons doesn't mean it's irrational of unfair.
All of your examples of dangerous things that aren't illegal represent nothing more than behaviors that go completely contrary to common sense. These things shouldn't need laws. It's blatantly stupid to do some things and everyone with an IQ > 50 knows it. If someone theoretically could decide to poke their eyes out with a stick, does that mean we need a law to ban poking out your own eyes with a stick? I think not.
But if you're talking about things that the average person might do just because their notions of risk/reward are somewhat skewed, say driving a motorcycle without a helmet cause they like the feel of the wind in their hair, should my taxes go towards the years of rehab they will need cause they got serious brain damage from being in an accident while not wearing a helmet? Fuck that.
Should it be ok to say you don't need seat belts cause it impinges on your right not to be bothered about having to take the two seconds to do yours up when you get in a car? These laws are made because some percentage of otherwise reasonable people will say 'screw that i'm not wearing a seatbelt, I'm sticking it to the man!'. So we need a law to tell them to do that.
That's different than saying we need a law to stop someone from smoking their lawn or whatever other creative way they can think of to harm themselves for no conceivable gain. The law of natural selection already dealt with people like that millions of years ago.
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