If you want to wear thousands of dollars of jewells to a hood filled with jackers and killers, then go ahead.
Tell the jackers that "they are wrong and you should be able to wear your jewellery anywhere". I'm sure they will agree, turn and walk away.
While your at it, go to the safari in Africa wearing t-bone steak cologne around the lions and tell the lions "you should be able to be anywhere on earth that you please", and they will certainly pass you by and look for another meal.
The point is J Prince is saying don't put yourself in self harming positions if you know better.
Your argument can be right and you can still be dead at the same time. Yea, he was in the right but he still dead.