Not fucking necessary.
To actually sell that off you need to make raiders outside of Evergreen Mills less of psychopaths wearing spiky armour and actual people. Most raiders will try ask you first, allowing for you to try persuade them, pay them off, kill them, etc. Depending on your reputation they'll be more likely to leave you alone, kill you or ask you.
Are you kidding me? I love it in games when murdering people is an option but it's a dangerous, hard and traumatic one to experience UNLESS you're a soldier, raider or merc. Games that have wanton murder bore me more often then not.
That's the problem. That's never was supposed to happen in Fallout. In Fallout 1 we have cities, citizens and small trading caravans, not everyone being a fucking survivalist. In Fallout 1 people can afford to lose their goods, because they're NOT fighting tooth and nail to survive. Most people live in what amounts to small villages, or towns not small camps. Normality has returned right at the beginning, though of course it's different to what we're used to. People aren't savages (unless they're tribals) or badasses if they're travelling. They can either be in caravans (which will happily give their goods rather than their lives) or migrant travelers (who could give everything they own in the hope of reaching their destination and getting a better life there).
To you?
No.
To me?
Yes. Then again, I kind of give this look to people who are okay with murdering people in a game but balk at consensual sex or romance.
Yes, because in a post-apocalypse where you need everything to survive, you're going to give up everything you own. Evergreen Mills Raiders aren't stupid, they're not going to ask, they're going to kill you and take your stuff because otherwise you'd kill them.
Robbery should be the same as killing you in the PA world.
That's because Human nature will make us form societies, groups, nations and install law and order in some manner. We are a social animal, arguably the MOST social animal on earth, to the extent where we thrive and need other Humans to survive and live full lives. Even in times of great stress and problems Humans will band together to SOLVE the problem, not merely tolerate it. We Humans strive not merely to survive but to CONTROL the environment and the resources in it. That's why Fallout 1 makes infinitely more sense because it takes into account the fact that Humans will strive together to prosper, to rebuild, to make something more.
There was. And guess what? Villagers joined together to fight the bandits, ambushing them and killing them when they could, commonly occurring in the 30 Years War. But this also fails to contradict that Humans will end up rebuilding things, as a constant raider society is not sustainable and results in stagnancy.
10 years immediately after the bombs fall... this hellish environment could work.
And after that banditry, there are attempts at organization. It's why anarchy never lasts since people will eventually organize together to solve a common problem and depending on how successful this is, it could build up from there. Order always comes about when faced with some form of chaos.