Always a take which sprouts vehement arguments, but this is something macOS gets extremely right, as Cmd-C, Cmd-V, etc. indeed work everywhere including the terminal, and Ctrl-C in the terminal is reliably SIGINT.
I also criss cross enough different terminals and systems that I never know if it is Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Shift-C. Same with paste.
It would be nice if we could use Ctrl+Break instead of Ctrl+C... also, use SysRq instead of Ctrl+Z.
Legacy bullshit from the 70s still making people facedesk today and probably for the next hundred years or more. At least ctrl-shift-c and ctrl-shift-v are now somewhat more common.
Rare to have these on a laptop. Sometimes you can find an non standard alternative key combo.
Try Shift-Insert. Works everywhere, never overloaded by something destructive.