Because it has yet to be years for me. I have still not had years to heal from the damage I inflicted upon myself and it pains me to hear and witness people speaking on the subject out of ignorance and a clear lack of knowledge.

You're right. A mental problem. It is completely mental that you would need to bring mean comments and your "slang" into what could have been a proper debate. There is a difference between ignorance and stupidity and you're beginning to side with the latter. Yes, by the way, I do need you to clarify something for me. Do you have a medical degree? Do you have any experience whatsoever with mental disturbances or even cutting? If not then why are you acting as if you do? Just because you don't personally cut or because you may not completely understand the concept doesn't mean it is a necessarily bad idea. Again, I'm not for it. However, it does have a medical study that stands behind the fact that it provides a temporary physical relief. Are you willing to undo years of medical study performed by scientists and educated men and women because of your ignorance? It is people like you that make people like me live with a stigma for YEARS after we have cut or otherwise hurt ourselves. It makes forgiving ourselves impossible.

While I am neither for or against cutting I did feel the need to set your obviously ignorant view straight. I am a past cutter. I have the word rape carved into my leg. I have large red scars down my arms and I have scars that are inside, ones no one else has ever seen. I wouldn't call them minor. I would label them as permanent reminders. However, it was never for attention. I was loved. I have a mother and a father who adore me. I have two caring brothers and best friends that would have been there for me if I had merely picked up the phone, for no reason at all. So attention was never a factor. My cutting was a physical way to express to MYSELF the mental and emotional pain that I was enduring as a result of a sexual crime that had been committed against me. There are times in a persons life that no matter how large your support system is, you have a battle you wrongly feel that only you can fight. It starts to overwhelm you to the point that you aren't sure how to let it out and a logical conclusion at the time SEEMS TO BE cutting. I ask that instead of posting ignorant debate answers you read up on the subject first. By the way. I AM menatlly disturbed! I have bipolar. The definition fits and it is a shoe I gladly wear. However, this doesn't mean I will randomly fly into a murderous rage or even say mean things to mean people. Nor will I start to cut of limbs. Oh, and it's spelled "Fucktards" although it's not really a word at all.

Absolutely!! I'm not gay myself, however, I have known many and some of them were more selfless and caring than I believe I ever could be. Many, I would say, I would prefer to be parents before myself. I believe that saying a couple can't have children simply because they have the same sex organs is like saying that two people can't have children because they have the same color of hair, in taking care of a child, it is completely irrelevant. Just because two males or two females are married or together doesn't mean that they're any less prone to the maternal/paternal instinct to protect and provide for their children. The only thing holding them from it is the ignorance of stigmas people place on the issue.

I'm a vegetarian. I love animals. However, that is not why I am a vegetarian. I abstain from meat because I do not personally enjoy it. I was raised that no matter what was put on your plate you ate it all and were grateful. Nowadays, however, I've realized that my dislike for meat grew to the point that I had to force myself to eat it. So, I quit. Cold Turkey (no pun intended) I stopped eating meat and now I love food!! I don't just eat "rabbit food" either. I enjoy veggie burgers because I prefer the way they are crisp and not to juicy and I love egg rolls and Chinese food. My husband is a steak and potatoes kind of guy. I cook meat for him every night and have never, not once tried to "convert" him to vegetarianism. This thread was most likely made by someone out of ignorance to the fact that not all vegetarians are doing it for the cute animals or for the environment. Some of us were just kind of wired this way:)