I’ll echo what a lot of people are saying here- The huge strength of the tabletop setting is that it’s up to each group and each DM, how to resolve situations like this, and keep the game interesting for all concerned at the same time.
The only thing I’d add is that stuff like this shouldn’t be coming up in the middle of the game- this is the sort of thing that’s best resolved at a session 0, where these things can be hashed out OOC before people have put time and effort into characters and the setting.
