How To Respond To Crazy People

It's not your job to change other people. And even if it were, crazy doesn't want to be changed.

Never wrestle with a pig. You just get dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

One suspects Marcus Aurelius was referring to a particularly frustrating person, some opponent who just would not or could not get the message, when he wrote, 'You can hold your breath till they're blue in the face, and they'll just go on doing it.'

You can't beat someone with nothing to lose, and it's impossible to reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into the first place.