I wouldn't actually say that it's "a whole different league from anything else a drunkard might do." The freakonomics guys claimed that it was at least as dangerous to oneself (although not to others) to walk drunk as to drive drunk, and I also know people who have hurt themselves very badly biking drunk, but who view it much more nonchalantly than driving drunk. There are also often local stories about people hurting themselves or dying falling out of windows or off balconies or roofs while drunk.

Driving drunk is particularly bad for how it can affect other people, but there are lots of dangerous things that people do while drunk that are also very concerning.

Way to sneak in "(although not to others)". That's the whole argument. When you drive drunk you endanger others who did not make the same irresponsible choices you did. If drunk driving only injured drunk drivers, we, as a society, would not care nearly as much as we do.

Who cares if some drunk guy kills himself behind the wheel because he's too selfish to make the right choice? It's when he kills a family with a couple kids in the backseat that we have a problem.

>Who cares if some drunk guy kills himself

I think lots of people care. I didn't mean to make it a small point that drunk driving endangers other people, but I wanted to point out that there are lots of life-threatening behaviors between drunk driving and sleeping with someone you wouldn't have slept with sober. I also think you're being far too flippant about people killing themselves with their own poor decisions. It's not the same problem as killing others, but there are lots of people in the world who would still like to prevent deaths from drug overdoses, alcohol poisoning, single-party drunk driving accidents, and so on.