Wolf, aside from the fact the implications of your last comment contradicts what you explicitly said in the preceding comment, you make it sound as if Chazal were ordinary people. They were not. The were malochim. What they said in the Gemorah is simply 100% pure unadulterated Emes and Toras Moshe M’Sinai. There were no “personal feelings” (to use your terminology) on matters involved.
