Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25555436-20150726193923/@comment-80.192.105.94-20150727212821

So you intend to condition them to expect pain if they're scared? I don't know if that would actually remove fear and possibly just result in fear and pain. Or are you going to condition them to become happy when they are scared, such as flooding the body with endorphins when scared. Though that wouldn't necessarily remove the fear.

If you can get your populace happy all the time, it may keep away the Grimm. But that's like saying a nuclear weapon is a valid line-breaker for getting past NATO defences in the FRG - retaliation would come and thus render the tactical warheads into fuses for an atomic powder keg, so it isn't really that practical in the grand scheme of things, even though on a local level it may well be. There are other factors that must be taken into account. This method could result in long-term psychological problems in the general populace. So in and of itself, it may work. But in the larger scheme of things, you may just get another problem. You could have a traumatised populace...who are still at risk of getting attacked by Grimm, albeit a reduced one.

So, maybe.