Ridicule is the negative element anyway; the only good it can be is by reflex or rebound force.
Ridicule is conceived by the humor idea. It is used because it so easily lends itself to a seeming clever way to create a laugh.
Humor of the clean sort is a rare gift. Humor may easily descend to low comedy by use of ridicule, and often the audience does not differentiate between low comedy and rare humor.
The masses will laugh when the comedian on the stage hits his friend with a club; that sort of fun-making satisfies adults who have children's brains and such brain-constructed people will also laugh at jokes which ride on ridicule. But you who read these lines are worthy of better things; that's why you are reading this book. If, in my audience there are those who have the ridicule habit, I want to arouse you to a better sense of humor than you can get by the employment of ridicule and sarcasm.
I don't want you to descend to the level of the grouch. The slide-down is so easy, the climbing back and up from the depth is so very hard.
Ridicule and sarcasm are cheap, slap-*stick methods to produce fun. They leave a sting many times when you are not aware of it.
When fighting whiskey, sin, corruption or evil hosts, then use burning ridicule and caustic sarcasm to sizzle and destroy the things that need to be destroyed.
Now I've told you, and next time you find yourself using ridicule or sarcasm to provoke mirth remember you are toying with a habit-forming practice that is likely to get the best of you unless you stop and stop now.