Comment by potato3732842

>Wouldn't it be weird if that didn't shape their perception?

No. I flat out reject the excuse you make on their behalf and consider you lesser than you would be had you not made it.

We're presumably discussing adults, not ten year olds or monkeys. They ought to f-ing act like it.

These people are almost all likely capable of the emotional restraint and logical thinking and sufficient abstract thought to think these things through and decide whether policy or action is good or bad regardless of if it's their guy doing it or their interest being served by it. The fact that they decline to do so is a failing of them. To excuse it only serves to reinforce or validate it and should be ridiculed.