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You are more likely to be put in jail for something you didn't do than be put in a mental asylum, in the United States at least. Sanity is absolutely based on cultural expectations. Even the APA will tell you that. Typically, people do not get comitted unless they pose a great threat to others. I wouldn't rely on this assumption for too long. Treatment of people with a mental illness could change just as easily as the treatment of prisoners has.
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