Sure they would. These "time of crisis" instincts are very primitive, as are most emotional reactions of this kind. To makes sense of them just imagine an extended family operating, c. 100k years ago.

The idea is this: in a time of crisis (say, very low food) how immoral it would be for the father (, etc.) to take much more than the mother (etc.).

And these feels very plausible. It is in the nature of a family to expect sacrifce.

It is these small-scale familial impulses that ideologues often rationalise (on both left and right).

What economics as a (rough) science is meant to provide us with is a way of transcending these impulses. These microeconomic explanations should persuade us that they are being misapplied in this case, and "familial-crisis" thinking cannot plausibly apply to a buisness.

However most people cannot really critically relate to their own emotional instincts, and so often explaining the microeconomics is shouting into the wind.