I guess humans will do whatever it takes...
Oh they can absolutely take it. If someone knows where you live and knows you own bitcoin, what’s to stop them from breaking in and torturing you until you give them access to your privatekey? The asymmetric cryptography makes it unconfiscatable as long as you can keep your privatekey a secret. The “$5 wrench attack” has happened so many times that Lopp has a overview of all known physical attacks on bitcoiners:
https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks/blob/master/README.md
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