I'm talking about tactics, not outcomes. Like - if you're in the woods, and you meet a wolf, you shouldn't run, because it will decide you're prey and then it'll catch you and eat you. But if you meet an elk and it starts acting annoyed, you should definitely run, because it's an herbivore and it just wants you to go away before it has to kick your head off.

Assuming that the right solution in one circumstance - even a highly fraught circumstance - is the superior solution in all circumstances is simply a fundamental failure to understand how complex the world is.