well, the difference between being blindsided and being farmed is that we already have mechanics and AI-related changes meant to alleviate the kind of farming we have seen over the last few years. this is seen as a major problem to the game by most netters -- I don't see netters defending the idea of farming tags/untagged/etc, only saying that it in a necessity to be able to play competitively, and as such, we have had good discussions about how we can update the game to make it more friendly to new players and conducive to small clans growing.

the only solution to blindsiding is political (short of MAJOR changes to game mechanics that change the nature of the game drastically) and we have seen no attempt to diverge from the path we're on by any of the fighting alliances or even some netting alliances

I think the main difference between the netters and fighters, in that regard, is that netters pretty much universally realize that farming IS an issue, and want to work towards a solution.
Fighters generally tend to favour the status quo, or make the argument for netters (or fighters) who are blindsided need to "toughen up and deal with it" and we seem to have a general culture where war alliances say "we will not hit our friends, and our friends are all the war alliances!"
netting alliances are only friends until they're viable targets, but war alliances are apparently friends forever.

it's not an apples to apples comparison at all.