User blog comment:Fliu/Chapter 980: This Is Where the Fun Begins/@comment-29391896-20200525133213/@comment-27973430-20200527225819

A person doesn't need to compromise his or her principles to act smart. Luffy and Zoro (plus company) were going to end up fighting these goons eventually and on better terms too, by attacking these fools now they put their plan in jeopardy and in this case failure doesn't just mean Luffy's and Zoro's death it also means the death of the entire alliance and further suffering for the poor citizens like Tama. And it's not like Luffy needed to wait long before the pummeling begins anyway he only needed to wait a little while but his lack of impulse control screwed the plan up. Not like it matters however because they are going to succeed regardless.