For blackmail to work you have to have a willing subject, someone who is crooked enough to do what you want, rather than suffer whatever the exposure of things he does would cost him.
Part of being a good person is that even if you have something that you can be blackmailed on, is that you don’t submit and commit truly despicable deeds and betrayals and crimes, you merely tell them, do what you will, but here I take my stand, fame, fortune, dignity, prestige, status, power, can all be stripped from me, I will face whatever the cost rather than go down your road.
< I will face whatever the cost rather than go down your road. >
“My” road? Odd that you would assume which road i would take should i ever find myself being blackmailed. Perhaps it’s early and you misread my reply. Drink more coffee and reread.