But that's how human beings typically debate stuff and form opinions.
It's perfectly reasonable for someone to form different opinions of the same scenario depending on who the subject matter is.
For example, if I heard that Michael Winner had been chucked out of a restaurant for complaining my opinion of the situation would be different had it been my mother being thrown out of the restaurant even though the 'scenario' was broadly the same. It's quite often the perceived way someone goes about the same task not the task or scenario itself that shapes observational opinions.
It's human nature to form opinions with an element of bias. Doesn't make it right of course but that's how we've evolved as a species.
Charles Darwin, April 1874
p.s. Before I get jumped on, none of the above pre-supposes my opinion of the situation raised in the OP. Just purely observational twaddle