User blog comment:Kate.moon/The Hunger Games Wiki on Facebook and Twitter/@comment-3583028-20111028002139/@comment-893709-20111028032748

Opinions that are not positive tend to be separated into two categories: criticism and insult. The line between these is sometimes quite fine, however when it comes down to it insult is simply criticism taken badly. Every man, woman, and child is entitled to an opinion. Why do you think this is? Because our society, no our world, functions according to a certain principle called natural selection. Effectively, if reduced to its simplest form, this means that the subject must exhibit favorable traits or die. An example of this would be the democracy we live in today. Democracy functions on principles of natural selection wherein a candidate must exhibit his favorable traits so that the people will favor him in the ballot box. Now, if voters decide to feel bad for the candidate, or simply vote without looking at the situation, the candidate may walk into office with a set of false presumptions. These false presumptions may easily lead to the downfall of the country simply because those responsible for critiquing the candidate refused to acknowledge the issues present.

So then, how do we relate this to the situation at hand? Here, as the writer, you are the candidate and Sky is the voter. However, unlike the example situation I presented, Sky cannot be hurt by voting for you regardless of whether he voted for or against. In fact, he's going out of his way to provide you with an alternate opinion. In the end, there are two things this opinion can do, hurt or help. This opinion only hurts if you let it hurt, and by letting it hurt you are assuming that there is something non-correctable about your work. If this is the case, then he is clearly telling the truth and can't be penalized for that. If you take his opinion at face value and simply accept that it may be true, perhaps you should try to fix the problem he presents instead of wailing about it. If you want nothing but positive opinions, then you are simply hiding behind a wall of ignorance and building yourself a false reality, or a delusion. When this delusion shatters, only the cold hard rocks of reality are left waiting to break the fall. So, in the end, criticism should be looked at as nothing more than an opinion worthy of consideration. Others can't hurt you with words unless you let them.

That's my opinion. :)