[Cuuugi]

The implication is that you are attacking the defenseless. There is none more defenseless than the dead.

[mcdonje]

Not true.

1. Plenty of living people defend the reputations of dead people.

2. There's no proof that anything we say or do has any impact on dead people.

[card_zero]

Well, if you think of person as a bunch of ideas, maybe with a mind attached, then by attacking a dead person you're attacking a bunch of vulnerable ideas that no longer have a mind to defend them. You can still call it a person, if you like.

[fogus]

No one cares less about defending themselves being attacked than the dead.

[card_zero]

No one is less tolerant of attacks than the dead.

[soco]

Godwin's law approaching