Same as never swerving to avoid hitting some critter in the road...in that case the car might be the loser and the critter the winner...(Michigan as thousands of dead deer along the highways.) cars won in those case's...
I grew up in moose country. You swerve or you die.
The problem wasn’t with the individual bike, it was all the ones following with the gang mentality. A guy in a minivan behind me was mouthing off to one, and several stopped to back up their buddies.
If one had been hit, I could see 100 of them doing some major damage.