Yes, **respond responsibility**, with **response-ability**. Don't engage in knee-jerk *reactionary* responses, but process the info, the situation, and respond responsibly.

Negative is part of life. Face the negative, see it for what it is, and seek to change things into the future by not creating the negative if you are part of creating, supporting or participating in it. If others still do create negative, then you can choose to continue to engage with them, or not. The choice is ours.

That's not to say hearing things you don't want to hear, like truth, is a reason to ignore the negative people are bringing to light, as we need to face it when we are a part of it, and even when it's part of the society or world we are living in. 

There are valid negatives we need to face (face the mirror if that's the case, even if the issue feels negative to us), and then there are times when people are just being negative douche-bags which we don't need to tolerate ;)