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Written by Rood at 17 Feb 2003 04:00:45: Re: The Right to Hate
As an answer to: Re: The Right to Hate written by Alfred at 15 Feb 2003 19:29:18:
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>Rood, you have an opinion, I have mine and it’s just the opposite. The frenulum doesn’t have a real function at all. The nerves behind it, yes, they are important, but the tie itself, much less smooth than the skin of the foreskin, is useless. I am very glad mine is cut. The functionality of the foreskin and the penis as a whole is perfect now and it lasts for many years already. Your theories seem to be correct, but you are very naive by not showing any willingness to see that nature is complex and can have many appearances. Your uniform treatment will not always have results. Why are you so short-sighted?
Alfred: Yes, it is my conviction ("opinion" if you prefer) that those of us who cut ourselves, especially, but not limited to, those who are aware of more felicitious solutions to perceived problems, evince symptoms of mental and/or emotional 'strain'. Self-harm is not only a pathological behaviour, it also provides an opening into one's interior...into the deepest recesses of one's mind.Before a person actually 'cuts' himself, it might be preferable for him to examine his psychological self. Self-mutilation is a complicated act, the meanings of which cannot be inferred by simple observation of the behaviour itself. To get to the essence of things one must search within for the misperceptions of reality with which cutting healthy tissue implies. It is in a search for a 'normal' life that we cut ourselves, but as the abnormal is largely within, cutting cannot solve the larger problem, however happy we might be with the outward result.