"I know I would have died if they'd chosen me," she said simply, a statement of fact. "I don't have that killer instinct. I don't know if I could hurt someone like that."
She was too gentle to do what needed to be done. Katniss had done what she had to do, even though she'd changed the rules at the end and done it her own way.
"Why do they do it, anyway? To keep you in your place, like Panem does?"