The irony, of course, is that by reducing risk and protecting ourselves from the associated fear, we produce a less capable and more fearful population.
But the way to control a large, stratified, fearful population is to keep it uneducated.
"Before you mass-market to the uninformed, fearful population, it should be peer-reviewed," said Dr. Karlan of Cedars-Sinai.
Given the mobility of this vulnerable, sometimes fearful population an expected attrition and loss to follow up of as much as 45% could be expected, requiring 350 to be recruited in each arm.
But, in 2017, it is still a long road to persuade large, fearful Western populations to trust their way of life and their security to a leader who is a devout Muslim.
In fact, it will only strengthen their resentment as well as their discrimination by an ever more fearful 'native' population.
It's an incredibly confused population, fearful in two directions rather than one.
And despite all this, the dramatic increase in our use of imprisonment has only encouraged a more fearful and insecure population, and has raised unrealistic expectations about the role prison can play in securing a safer society.
Juárez experienced more than 1,500 homicides last year, which, along with daylight carjackings, occasional kidnappings, random street robberies and plain vanilla extortion, made for a population fearful of the new year.
Smuts, though sympathising with the concerns of the old population, fearful their established ways and traditions would be swamped in a flood of migration, urged the Afrikaners to embrace the new spirit of dynamism which he saw the new migrants injecting.
