[Mulie]

Ridicule doesn't enlighten. I suppose you could hope that your ridicule would prevent others from hopping on the fool's bandwagon, but it's not productive for CT.

Sometimes I have trouble not resorting to ridicule, too. Less often of late. Now quiet contemplation follows instead. One might argue that doing so would leave certain retaliatory emotions unattended, but it's becoming increasingly apparent to me that those are corollary.