I truly don't understand the apparent need to pretend to get inside other people's heads to determine why they say what they do. (Plenty of other examples in these Sports Bar threads, some of them much worse lately, I'm responding to just this latest instance.) Someone can prioritize things differently, or prefer a different approach to solving a given issue, or simply see the world with different eyes, without being smug, nor self-satisfied. Going personal, even with some vague group of people rather than an individual, distracts from the discussion.