The implication is that you are attacking the defenseless. There is none more defenseless than the dead.
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.
No one cares less about defending themselves being attacked than the dead.
Godwin's law approaching
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.