In an attempt to not offend in the area of detraction people leave themselves wide open to other serious errors, perhaps due to lack of wisdom and spiritual acuity.
An example of this is when former president Bush called Muslim a religion of peace and that there are just some extremists that offend.
As a result the Muslims have implanted in Bush’s very position one of their own to sabotage this country.
With lack of spiritual acuity people wrongly accept and acclaim as popes: heretics, and along with practicing multiple other errors, the fruit is the loss of many souls.
There is a time and a place for exposing evil acts of those who assert themselves as leader, as when Jesus called the Jewish leaders whitewashed sepulchers, for example.
In other words, being fearful of speaking the truth.