Is there more than one side?
Besides militant extremists who would welcome the end of the world and seem to want to have a hand in blowing us all up in one undifferentiated blaze of (their) glory, I mean . . .
Mole333 is saying (unless I'm projecting like crazy, which could be!) that we need both to protect everyone's liberty to differ within groups AND insure sufficient security such that we all can enjoy being different together in one happy group, if we choose.

We do have a bunch of contradictory specific solutions being pursued though, don't we? I wonder if different populations and interest groups are standing in different positions around this massive conundrum, and so each experiences only one or two integral facets of it, like the blind men -- one feeling the elephant's trunk as very sensitive and flexible, versus the guy getting dumped on from its opposite end and concluding it has no redeeming qualities and it's time to kill it and burn the carcass.

So, if you and I and everyone all around this massive problem first worked on getting those blindfolds off some of the folks standing nearest us, that alone could be a major contribution toward building the consensus the entire human population will need to live happily and safely alongside the elephants?