> It's illegal for them to hurt you.

A well-known inhibitor for the unhinged.

I wish I had the social awareness to troll [the right] people [well] in the moment like this. I've misjudged the dangerous ones enough, find that has blocked my words.

It's the being in prison for years which truly inhibits them.

Is that why our prisons sit empty?

For the benefit of the next victim, maybe. The unhinged are famously forward-thinking. Hopefully you report their crime after the fact and it's met with a favorable result.

All to say: "May the odds...", etc.