Imagine getting shot with a poisoned arrow.

The poison will kill you, but there’s an antidote.

However, rather than sprint immediately for it in order to save your life, you instead do the following:

Speculate on who shot the arrow
Get angry at those who you think shot the arrow
Debate whether the antidote is effective
Argue about other potential antidotes
Put a band-aid on the wound to hide it

In other words, you do everything but take the antitdote and give yourself a fighting chance.

Pick any issue our world is facing and this is what it looks like.

(poison arrow example adapted from a classic Buddhist parable)