Originally Posted by
Rick
I might suggest just the opposite. We might let our guard down a bit more in a familiar environment while being "on alert" in an unfamiliar environment.
Our ability to detect danger is inherent in all of us. Some more so than others. On the plains, the ones that couldn't detect danger very well were called "dinner" and didn't pass their genes along. Today we call them victims. To be sure not every danger can be detected (head on collision with a drunk) but many can. I think our greater challenge is to remain vigilant even in comfortable surroundings.