the clean blades debate

Topic of the moment is self-harming and the minimising-harm/enabling controversy, as sparked by an article in the Times entitled "self-harmers to be given clean blades". Much of what needs to be said already has been, particularly in the discussions here and here, and the extremely well-written entries by arkady (here), rathenar (here) and forthwritten (here).

( discussion of the proposals: potential trigger warning )