Ma at that point you literally just threw a wrench in your own way.
Crazy how self-destructive people can be.
I was reading about this recently. Allegedly if you don't have any prior training on how to deal with them ,flight or flight response automates your body. Your logical brain has no reference points for what to do in the strange situation of being accosted in your house, so it defaults to the most reptilian and primitive parts of your brain .
The fight or flight completely chokes a human's frontal cortex of blood, sugar, and electrical signals and all these resources are automatically diverted to your amygdala(emotional center) , and cerebellum(reflexes). A human being becomes temporarily retarded. Allegedly this is why people act out when they are accosted by police.
Their logical mind( the frontal cortex) literally took a vacation.
The crazy thing is that this is an innate biological reaction, so in theory we are all capable of self-destructing. The only way around it is to receive cognitive (thought processes) or behavioral (habits) training, before you encounter a strange stimulus that can turn you into a reptile.