[Prime Choice]

And maybe idiots deserve more mercy than that, since that company includes all of us sooner or later. I think of this whenever I hear a Christian smugly say that he or she does not “suffer fools gladly.” Well, I think, Jesus suffers you.

This point is well-made. All the same, I don't think my Lord disapproves of my occasionally making a verbal cat-o'-nine-tails and driving the idiot merchants out of the temple of sanity and logic.

[dandelion]

This is one of the hardest issues for me as a writer. I REALLY enjoy writing satire, and some of my most well-received articles are written in that vein. But I feel so uncomfortable if it involves one person in particular. I'm far more comfortable with skewering groups than in skewering one person.

I just don't like to be mean spirited - but at the same time, I do. Wah.

WWJD?

[GSlob]

"All the same, I don't think my Lord disapproves..."
Isn't there a Commandment to put the idiots to scorn and jeer, for this is the only way to help them towards salvation? It might even be a religious duty.