Certainly. I’m just pointing out that to counter that, when it happens, it helps to understand their angle on it so you can offer counter-arguments at the same level.
“It’s obvious” … well, it wasn’t obvious to them, so the question is why not. Understanding what the bastards were thinking is first step to changing their thinking… or, sometimes, to discovering that they weren’t the bastards you thought they were. (They may still be some other kind of bastard, of course.)
