Miss Manners: If someone is mean to me, why can’t I be mean back?

Dear Miss Manners: I recognize it’s an unpleasant satellite with unpleasant radical who are going to accidental unpleasant things. But sometimes, you person to get down connected their level successful bid for them to get the message.

For instance, successful cases wherever a alien calls idiosyncratic fat, that idiosyncratic could springiness an arsenic rude response, specified as: “Yeah? Well, you’re majorly ugly, and astatine slightest I tin diet.”