I mean that their piece pretty much needed to be gutted or discarded , and my vote was on discarding . I think it was probably the hardest critique I ever had to write , because a ) I do n't normally like to be that negative and b ) I really , reeeeeeally wanted to like her work because she was a teacher of mine and because she was a really nice person . I just could n't , and it 's not in my nature to lie .

Question: Why does the writer think the piece needed to be discarded ?
Answer: Because it was the hardest critique the writer has ever had to write .Because they think the piece is poor quality .Because the writer does n't normally like to be that negative .None of the above choices .