Where is the line between a disorder and else?

Everybody hurts their families. One of the most common ways is by not being what they wanted you to be. As a gay friend of mine used to say, you can only be who you are. Extinction is not an imminent problem. Overpopulation is. You're doing all you can to prevent overpopulation. Pigs can fly. Women with too much makeup gross me out. Cashews gross me out. We all hurt ourselves. Every choice we make (not that homosexuality is a choice) has an up side and a down side. We sacrifice our career for our children or we sacrifice our children for our career. I can make a valid argument that nobody should parachute out of a perfectly good airplane - but that doesn't give me the right to prevent people from doing it.

On the bright side, you can recognize intolerance in yourself. That's the first step toward reducing your own intolerance.A lot of people would just say, "How dare you suggest that I'm intolerant?"

I think it's pretty clear that "public medical care" refers to billing, not access. (And I don't agree with jar's position, by the way. I believe in unconditional universal publicly-funded healthcare.)

Well, I wasn't really thinking of that as "health" care.

Mental health counts as health.

In the case of a motorcycle accident, that would be fairly easy. Was the procedure necessary to save the patient's life, to minimize brain damage, etc.? Whether or not he was wearing a helmet is not a factor in that determination.To recap: How the patient got into a state of "disorder" is irrelevant (to me). He should have unconditional cost-free access to any procedure necessary to get him out of it.

I just want to SHRIEK! when I hear that. Obviously "cost-free" means cost-free to the end-user, not cost-free to the entire universe for all time.