Indeed. In part our success as species is thanks to being somewhat paranoid and organising in advance to compete against threats as a super-tribe. Homo-sapiens managed to prevail of other human-species, animals and most viruses mostly by way of creating and collectively believing in shared “stories” - religions, science, organisations, systems, models. That is our superpower.

Now, whether we should succumb and make way for some other species to prevail is a whole ‘nother question. Personally, I believe that the meaning of life is that we are given it as divine gift, we have to live it and therefore we have to uphold it. In other words, we have to fight when it’s time to fight.