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I'd like to think the vehicle(s) behind me would be braking to, but if I thought every motorist/cyclist on the road around me was absolutely flawless at controlling their vehicle and were completely alert to everything on the road then I'd probably be dead by now.
I'm certainly not advocating head on collisions, I'll do everything possible to dodge a ped but I'm also not too fussed on taking "chances" with traffic and hoping all that all I get, as you so casually put it, is a "clip" from behind.
Antidotes
Clearly your mind is made up but in the interests of your readers' safety, I would ask them to consider what it would feel like to have a 90kg (say) dead weight catapulted into your face at 30 mph (say). Because that's what it will feel like to hit a pedestrian if you don't brake. You should expect some amounts of injury and death. In practice, the pedestrian is unlikely to run out in front of this hypothetical car behind you, but if they do, the driver will likely be braking too. Head-on impacts are to be avoided; better to take your chances with a possible clip from behind.