 What does it mean to be Cured?
Do you know that what we are doing is really the most primitive medicine in the world? One cannibal walking another with sleeping sickness doesn't cure anything. With that image over everything he sees and with that insidious voice drumming in his head night and day, do you mean to say that man's senses will only be impaired 23 per cent? Many "Cures" were not readily apparent. People take one look at your Cure and don't ask you to go walking in the rain. "It's a cure for alcoholism," Price told him. The Cures were supposed to save lives, not endanger them. Men hide in the comforts of insanity, but when faced with death, they are often forced back to reality.
 Cured humans have received an intervention for their phobia
 Cured humans are genetically superior to Normal humans  Cured humans have received an intervention for their phobia  Cured humans are allowed to reproduce while Normals aren't  Cured humans are fearless while Normals live their lives in fear