“You didn’t have to comment”
Anything you put online is open to criticism. That’s not an opinion, that’s just how it works. The moment you hit publish, you’ve made a choice. You had the option to keep it private, to save it in your notes, to never share it at all. You didn’t. That decision comes with a consequence, and that consequence is response, good, bad, or indifferent. Now, the criticism doesn’t have to be constructive. That’s the part people conveniently forget. Nobody in the comment section signed a contract agreeing to be thoughtful. Some people will engage genuinely. Some won’t. Both are valid outcomes of putting something in a public space. “You didn’t have to comment” is a fair point. It’s also completely irrelevant. They did comment. Just like you didn’t have to post, but you did. Every angle here is consistent. You exercised a choice when you published. They exercised a choice when they responded. Neither party was under any obligation. The logic runs the same way from both ends. The issue isn’t the ...