It's certainly a slippery slope. I suppose it's not a so big problem if "healing" is optional.
Political dissidence has been categorize as an illness in the past. In the Soviet Union, for instance. The same with sexual preferences.
In the science fiction novel "Distress", by Greg Egan, appears a character that it's a highly functioning autistic that don't want to be "healed".
I have the book here. This idea has been with me since I read it:
"What's the most patronising thing you can offer to do for people you disagree with, or don't understand? [..] Heal them. [..] Whoever claims the authority to define the boundary between health and disease claims...everything."
Political dissidence has been categorize as an illness in the past. In the Soviet Union, for instance. The same with sexual preferences.
In the science fiction novel "Distress", by Greg Egan, appears a character that it's a highly functioning autistic that don't want to be "healed".
I have the book here. This idea has been with me since I read it:
"What's the most patronising thing you can offer to do for people you disagree with, or don't understand? [..] Heal them. [..] Whoever claims the authority to define the boundary between health and disease claims...everything."