No one is forcing you to stay in hisec either.
Sure, but this is all their own choice.
This ican be true for anything in hisec, though. You may only find out what a capacitor is when you run out of it and your sheild boosters no longer work and your ship gets destroyed by rats.
A few misconceptions here.
Firstly, the Mining Permit isnt a right to do whatever you want, you still cant afk autopilot even with a permit.
Secondly, we usually dont go out and search and kill specific targets. Only the ones that were especially bad or blingy or salty. Most new players that I gank, I open up a convo or send them a mail explaining what happened and what they can do to better equip and prepare themselves. If they are genuinely cool dudes, i even through in a couple million isk to them.
Its a good litmus test as to who can truly have the balls and mentality to survive and enjoy eve. We get people who never lost a ship in 10 years, then one gank after or one lost citadel after, and they quit the game with a huge tearmail thread. Then we have the new player who was ganked and takes it with stride and becomes super successful.
Or he could join us. But AG would disagree that it would be impossible to fight back. It is possible to fight back, and the way to do so is not to make yourself such a target by not being AFK, not auotpiloting, not flying around with blingy stuff, and being careful.
There is always a choice.