for some people, the FACTS of a situation are interpreted as a personal attack."

It's the same people who think that the story is more important than the truth.
People who think there is no truth, only narrative to convince for personal gain.
Yes, truth can be subjective, but it can be objective also, like the example you gave above - it is both fact and true.

Could be there's some veracity to your theorizing. My happiest times as a kid were those when the world left me the frak alone!

My happiest time was seeing my Dad approve of me, while standing up to liars and deceivers (mostly my family).
Ergo.. being in conflict with my authority figures, standing up for truth, and calling out the liars and manipulators, was my 'happy' time - as twisted as that may first appear.

That explains quite a lot about me, doesn't it? lolol

It's all about recreating the environment that brought you the happiest feeling as a youngster.
If this hypothesis is any way near accurate, I can only see it as being an unconscious drive in the majority of people.

I think Soros said that the time he spent as a kid - under nazi rule - was the happiest time of his life (for whatever reasons).
So his 'happy time', was fighting the authorities by subterfuge, profiting by deception, and lying to survive, all while living in a world of wartime and thus social chaos......MMMmmmmmm....