As long as you have a burning need to answer yahoos, you will always care what yahoos think, and yahoos will always impact you.  When you reach the point where you feel more satisfied giving yahoos absolutely zero to grasp and use to beat you with, life gets better.

Of course, I’m only talking about verbal retaliation.  If you have a chance to have some fun with them physically, I’m all for that part, obeying all relevant/enforceable statutes and inserting here all the necessary rear end covering.