Open Question: Why do some people think they are born with wilderness survival skills?

My last Q about this was horribly written. What I am asking is why do some folks think that they are born to survive in a wilderness? Even Native Americans aren’t born with the skills of their ancestors. Yet I have met quite a few people of all races who think they just know it all, about how nature works and how to survive in it. This has scared me for them many times, like a young man who wants to “live off the land” in a remote area, who will not listen to experienced advice, nor seek such advice. How do you get it across to them that having a gun and knife doesn’t make you an instant wilderness survivalist? Here is an example of what I am asking about; http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Story?id=3680748&page=1 People are getting killed in remote places, from the deserts of the south west, the woods and swamps in the Deep South, through the Rockies and the rest of North America, from inexperience, lack of outdoor skills and lack of proper equipment. How can we get across to such people to save their lives? Our Government spends millions warning us about everything from cigarettes to cosmetics, but not that the outdoors can kill you. Don’t you think this should be taught in every classroom in America? Do you have any idea how to save some of these lives? Another example; http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1600388 METRO.. you have an excellent point. However I live where these kinds of people visit; remote Alaska, and every year we have people die here. I used to help search and rescue some years ago look for such people. And I have helped recover what was left of them IF we found them. I found a family of 5 and a big dog, in a small inflatable raft 8 miles from shore, with no life jackets. It took me a ½ hour to convince the moron dad that their lives were in peril. He had no clue, but the Coast Guard gave him a few after I called them! Stupid people or not that was lives saved.