[aaron695]

Normal human reactions.

OP also didn't react as hindsight tells us the answer. Hand it over. Why did they value something crappy like money over their life, are they so superficial? (Probably not)

We've been told a million times just to hand it over, but OP still didn't.

Concentrate on the long term issues, there are more and they are solvable through logic, like solving homelessness.

Don't worry so much about how people react in unexpected situations. Worry more about peoples long term decision making, that scares me.

[crashoverdrive]

You are correct, in hindsight, I would have handed it over, halfway through fighting it over, while bleeding I contemplated handing it over? What stopped me from doing so in the beginning?

I had the largest presentation of my life that night for a public audience of 200 people and letting my company and CTO down. I couldn't imagine losing all of my things and not being able to do so. Yes it was a very selfish driver at the time, but my brain couldn't move beyond that thought.