[Austin Willard Wright]

Give a choice, I would rather be called a nut rather than a traitor (potentially a capital crime)? How about you?

[Richard Poe]

<< Give a choice, I would rather be called a nut rather than a traitor (potentially a capital crime)? How about you? >>

Depends.

In the old Soviet Union, incarceration in a state mental health facility for the politically "insane" could arguably have been worse than a quick bullet to the back of the head.