>>4429
>I mentioned and ignorantly calling each and every one of them attention whores.

Not at all. I only mentioned specific group of people who do self-harm for attention as attention whores.

>I don't know what kind of a reply would satisfy you.

it woud be explanation which explains what important goals cutting can achieve that other harmless methods cant.

It is all simple there is some goal which you want (it does not need to be rational you may want anything) and then you select methods to achieve that goal and those methods have to be rational and optimal.


>As long as you understand that some people do it for hope rather than death, I'm content.

I probably need to explain again that suicidal desires are not necessary enacted we all sometimes feel as if we want to die or disappear, for me it is not uncommon either but nevertheless we do not enact them because we have strong instinct to live or some other reasons.
However, when you have those thoughts you may start sabotaging yourself in some way. You want world to end or something bad to happen.
People just want something to end their misery while at same time they will do everything to survive when something happens for real.