"Ah yes, let's fucking ROB a KITCHEN with a POCKET KNIFE, when my would-be victims are surrounded by knives of all shapes and sizes, pans heavy enough to crack someone's skull, cleavers that could take my limbs off in one swing, literal BOILING LIQUIDS in HUGE pots, and they're also SERVICE WORKERS who are probably homicidal from the bullshit customers pull in a regular day's work and are just looking for an excuse to kill someone legally. Surely I won't get done like Julius Caesar."
Sometimes refusing to fight back is risking your life. The situation varies wildly case by case, we can't make blanket statements.
If I were manning the register at a convenience store? Fuck it, take it all, vas con dios. In a case like this? I'm grabbing whatever makeshift weapon is at hand.
Can't articulate it, but in the latter case I'd feel more cornered, fewer options?
Agreed.
Not every nutcase is running on get-money-get-out logic.
Some people are just looking for a bad time and have decided they're going to make it your problem.
I mean, technically, you have WAY more options... on how to hurt the would-be robber 😂