What about the hundreds of journeys you'll inevitably disrupt? Should your fellow passengers perhaps be free to use lethal force against you in return?
Emotionally or psychologically it is significant but that's the traditional bar and blindspot.
Stolen phone -> post offensive things to users Twitter account -> fired from job -> lose healthcare -> death.
Stolen phone -> send violent threat against police posing as phone owner -> SWAT team shoots on sight -> death.