[jancsika]

> If you don’t play ball in certain parts of the world, you end up in a river.

OP branched here: "it's not as if the choices were 'commit crime / get bounty'."

Any example relevant to OP's branch cannot end with the subject in a river. The very fact that you are discussing it proves we've jumped to the other branch of the conditional-- the one where the choice is exclusively between `commit crime / get bounty` (by threat of death in your example)

tldr; goto considered harmful on HN