One important thing they’re missing is the importance of education. Until you understand the deeper complexity of any particular issue, it’s much easier to simply handwave it away as some kind of frightening “enemy action” that creates some form of threat. Ultimately, a legitimate, immediate threat to your physical wellbeing only has one practical solution, and its hard-wired into your biology in the form of the fight-or-flight response.

After doing the hard and lengthy work necessary to understand a particular issue at a deeper level, though, you become more familiar with its real causes, and more open to other potential solutions, such as prevention. These would be impractical without the understanding of the issue, though, and any lack of understanding precludes even considering them as possible.

So, ultimately, I’d say these diverging worldviews are themselves an indication of something deeper–a divide in understanding.