like trying to address some of these rat idiots.....sterilizing men at age 50....I mean, don't even give them the time of day....
Rather, part of the wisdom of proverbs is understanding how it is to be applied, and here both not answering and answering have their place. In the first instance, of avoidance, it is due to the danger of answering like the food does, such as by simply engaging in argument by mere unwarranted assertion of a Truth claim which presumes the very thing that needs to be established.
In the second instance it is engaging and interacting with the claim by documenting and or logically demonstrating its fallacious nature, thereby showing the fool that he is being foolish, nor wise as is presumed by the same.
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. (Proverbs 26:4-5)