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RE: Are you a reasonable person?
I can also say that I often do have reasons for things/actions/positions that I often have little drive to explain to most people. There needs be a compulsion for me to share with another, a sign/feeling to make that effort.
I understand the feeling, it's an aspect of the "free-rider" problem, or perhaps the "prisoner's dilemma".
If one person is reasonable and the other person isn't reasonable, then the reasonable person loses.
I'm just trying to give you some ammo to help point out (in those situations) that the unreasonable person is (EITHER) unreasonable (acting without any reason), (OR) functionally-indistinguishable from an unreasonable person (refusing to reveal their reasons, de facto unreasonable).
This is usually true, yes. If one is not dependent on the unreasonable person for the outcome, or it is worth the conflict as the desired goal is necessary, it often nullifies the unreasonable persons insertion. Often, one can use the others lack of control to nullify them to others who matter, or better, educate those on the fence when they see for themselves an unreasonable opposition. Bypassing such people is the best option if possible.