I really like your hornet analogy. I have a lot of hornet experience and always manage to get an annual update. What do you do when you discover a hornet's nest in your yard?
Do you give the yard to them so you and yours never get stung for being near them or possibly doing something that might make them mad? Do you rationalize that they are, after all, a part of nature and do good along with the bad.
Or, does the bad outweigh the good? Are you so outraged by them stinging you or yours or just their threat that you take out the nest? (The exterminator's phone number is on the refrigerator.)
Those hornets should be scared of you, not the other way around. They should be afraid of making you mad, not the other way around.
I once threw a rock at a hornets nest and several hornets instantaneously followed the rock’s precise course and attacked my arm.