“Of course, there are those bad situations where you’re dead from the start and just can’t do anything about it.”
So #3 is operative! DON’T EVER GO THERE to begin with!
Agreed and I hate to continue fussing with this, but nice areas of many cities and sections of too many suburban communities can suddenly generate critical masses of amoral, violent thugs to create a wrong place, wrong time event. In the 60’s I could visit black friends in Bed Stuy during the short interlude before my skin color became an issue and a justification and trigger for hatred and violence. I was lucky and able to follow # 3 and generalize it to other areas of NYC before getting hurt and and then get out to a low crime township in NJ in the early 70’s. Thanks to too many years of Leftist government, the indicators have become blurred and it’s harder to tell where “there” has crept to.
We really need an app like WAZE to help us steer clear of those blurry areas we also need to avoid while “...driving while white.”