What does this say about how people respond to potential threats to their health and lives?

Worst of all, they didn't respond to threats in a rational way.

And they certainly don't respond well to perceived threats to their income or power.

Our military is stretched too thin to respond to other threats.

It is also used to respond to dangerous threats to the natural environment of the state.

How individuals respond to threats of medical problems varies according to their personality.

But another witness said that there was no one else in position to respond to large threats.

They were not a people who would respond to threats.

The Trust is also responding to increased threats to the environment.

Even before the new advances, the nation was not without a capacity to respond quickly to potential nuclear threats.