Quote Originally Posted by The Foundation View Post
So long as the attacks downplay the value of your Id elements and their Ego elements you are still abiding by the Ignoring Function's (or, rather, the entire Id block's) perspective. Mockery is just one of many ways to make the contrary elements seem less reasonable.
OK you mentioned it as if it was the only way. Yep of course the attacks downplay the value of my Ignoring that's their Ego element.

Btw I do see this going on for myself:

I would think that even though people use the function alone, that its use is almost always serving the agenda of the Lead function, much like how the Creative function is a sort of slave to the Lead function. It's use in privacy could be interpreted to mean that people use it to strengthen their own Lead function or further expand on its views, sort of like orienting yourself in the world.