At the risk of totally reducing this to unsupportable subjective intuitions...no, the two decisions wouldn't feel the same at all.

I can think of some cases in which it would feel similar. If one of the ticket-seekers was my best friend whom I'd known forever, and another was a girl I was trying to impress, and I had to decide between loyalty to my best friend or personal gain from impressing the girl. Or if one of the ticket-seekers had an incurable disease and this was her last chance to enjoy herself, and the other was a much better friend and much more fun to be around. But both of these are, in some way, moral issues.

In the simple ticket-seeker case without any of these complications, there would be a tough decision, but it would be symmetrical: there would be certain reasons for choosing Friend A, and certain others for choosing Friend B, and I could just decide between them. In the torrenting case, and the complicated ticket-seeker cases, it feels asymmetrical: like I have a better nature tending toward one side, and temptation tending toward the other side. This asymmetry seems to be the uniting factor behind my feeling of needing "willpower" for some decisions.