It seems that most computer scientists (and people working on other technology oriented areas) cannot handle a situation where someone is playing a political game on them. I found that there are basically three different ways they react when someone is saying something to attack their position:
1. They start to argue with their colleagues why it is not true what the other person is saying and how dumb this other person must be to think in such a stupid way. --- This obviously means they have not the slightest idea that the other person just wants to polemize.
2. They immediately offer a compromise by going five steps backwards from their own opinion. Typically they think that this will smooth the opponent. Actually in such situations this only leads to the effect that the next time the opponent will come back with an even more extreme position.
3. They become totally bullheaded. In this situation they even don't try to find an appropriate compromise, even when this hurted themselves because any solution would be better than having no solution.
Some position in between 2. and 3. would enable them to handle the situation quite well by entering the political game as an active and smart player. --- But as computer scientists are binary people they can't mix that stuff.
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