"Do you think Niall should be so carefree?" wonders a One Direction fansite poll. "Or should he install a panic room?"
And so once more to Directioners, the adorable army of child soldiers who are just as at home tweeting the Kony 2012 video as they are threatening to mutilate and kill anyone who criticises Liam's jacket.
This week, it was reported that the band's Louis Tomlinson has installed a panic room in his house, while his bandmate Zayn Malik already has one to protect him against the ministrations of crazed fans. Little Niall Horan, as that amusingly affectless fansite question suggests, is altogether more cavalier. "It's only brave girls behind a computer, thinking they can say anything," he told reporters a while back. "I know other celebrities get freaked out about the death threats, but I'm really carefree about it."
One can only wish him all the best. After all, in a week where some Justin Bieber fans have threatened to kill another Justin Bieber fan for having the temerity to be retweeted by Justin Bieber, while other Bieber fans threatened to kill still other Bieber fans for having the temerity to bemoan Bieber's timekeeping, survivalism is beginning to look like the sensible choice for all of us.
