A Bishop named David Charmbury out of Birmingham, England was attacked after he was trying to stop thieves from taking his sports car. He's in a coma now. My question is, should he have just let them go with it - it was just a car and now he has very serious head injuries. Prayers go to his family.
Normally no material object is worth our life, the exception is if we sacrifice ourselves to save our family and others, but then they are not material inanimate objects.
I always think of this at times like this, only hope I think of it, if it ever happens to me. But it does happen all of the time, in little ways, as we travel through life.