For someone to accept the fact that they screwed themselves with a shot that was sold to them as a good thing, and also endangered the lives of their loved ones, is such a hard fact to swallow that a person would rather become hostile toward the suggestion they could be wrong rather than accept the truth.
The aggressiveness is from cognitive dissonance.
For someone to accept the fact that they screwed themselves with a shot that was sold to them as a good thing, and also endangered the lives of their loved ones, is such a hard fact to swallow that a person would rather become hostile toward the suggestion they could be wrong rather than accept the truth.