Perhaps the Force sees fit to spare these people rigors they aeren't ready for, but to me that sounds like a stretch when I think about the horrors Gopi Krishna barely survived.
A life-or-death situation can reveal whether somebody is panicky or coolheaded, whether the person is selfish or thinks about others. This also is true for a nation-state.
He was now to go to bed; that was an old turn-up bedstead; in it he lay and thought about his geography lesson, and of Zealand, and of all that his master had told him.
He watched the moon rise in the sky, he listened to the sounds of the River Seine flowing through the heart of the city, and he thought calmly about the past, and the future.