If the rules only bother you when they apply to you, that’s worth noticing.

Selective outrage is a reliable sign that the objection is about the outcome rather than the principle. When a rule catches someone else it looks like order, and when it catches you it looks like bureaucracy, and the rule did not change between those two moments. That does not make every complaint wrong, it means your complaint is not yet evidence.

Ask whether you would want the rule enforced on somebody who beat you. If yes, the problem is the consequence. If genuinely no, you now have a real argument and you can make it properly.