[lukeschlather]

Not blind, but to make a really stark example, there's a difference between mocking someone when you have a gun to their head, and mocking someone who has a gun to your head. The former is just adding insult to injury, the latter is stupid but a little brave at the same time.

[ygaf]

In the former example you have so much power that whatever cause you had to denigrate them no longer matters to you, but that is neither the common case nor principled.