The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.
People have a right to criticize.
I can't control the criticism. It's something you certainly don't appreciate, but by the same token, everybody is entitled to their opinion.
Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.