Of course they're not just.
Shido was on the right side of history, and was going to take japan to a new golden era. Then the phantom thieves are like "woah, this guy looks bad and he's a 「S H I T T Y A D U L Tã€" then proceeded to unjustly force him to say he did some bad stuff in his life. We've all done some bad stuff. I don't see the problem here.
(edited by Sarinman)