> This post to me is an antithesis to rationality. That might be overstating it a bit, no? If you're trying to offer constructive criticism, at any rate. I d

> This post to me is an antithesis to rationality. That might be overstating it a bit, no? If you're trying to offer constructive criticism, at any rate. I disagree, though -- the central point is that you should realistically imagine your critique from the POV of the creator receiving it. Sure, people should be able to rationally evaluate any critique, no matter how harshly framed, and filter out a few useful bits from it. In reality, most people have egos that are rather more humanly fragile than that, and you should act accordingly. This, to me, is the heart of rationality: recognizing the reality of the situation (including emotional/psychological factors at play among the actual humans involved!) and acting in that context will bring you far more effective results than if you assume people are as they should be (but aren't).