[title] No Room Left For Asylum Seekers
[desc] Mental institutions have been overcrowded ever since religious belief was classified as a mental disorder. Additionally, many @@DEMONYMPLURAL@@ have voiced concerns about the ethicality of locking up the religious, along with doubts about the effectiveness of treatment. This has prompted you to visit the @@CAPITAL@@ Lunatic Asylum, @@NAME@@'s largest psychiatric hospital.
[validity] must have chosen 70.3 or 196.5
[option] "You have to be crazy to do this job," confides one of the nurses, walking with you along a hallway of padded cells. "We cannot handle the amount of patients. And most of these religious people aren't dangerous or mentally ill at all. It's completely natural and normal to believe in a god; it's just the fanatics that are a danger to our society. Release the harmless ones; it's impractical to keep them all locked up."
[effect]only lapsed believers are considered mentally sound
[option] "@@LEADER@@, we could handle all patients if we had more state support," rasps the Asylum's Director, appearing from behind a corner. "Funding for more hospitals, more staff. @@NAME@@ can research better conversion techniques and drugs, so we can effectively and truly cure our patients. I want to help these people see the light."
[effect]@@NAME@@ builds cathedral-sized asylums to house the religiously insane
[option] "There is a reason why we decided to put them in hospitals," argues @@RANDOMNAME@@, a fervent atheist nurse. "Religion has brought little but suffering to the world. Just look at all of history for proof. Faith may make us feel secure, but overall, it's just bad. You can't reform the devout, so help humanity by letting them meet their maker. We'll all be in paradise then."
[effect]@@NAME@@ leads the world in martyrs per capita
[option] "Let my people go," shrieks a straitjacketed patient from within a padded cell. "We are not crazy, well, except for the Violetists. It is only logical to believe in a higher power. How can you look at our beautiful and complex world and not think that something intelligent created it? Science doesn't explain everything. You're the crazy one if you believe it does. Religious belief is rational and not a mental disorder, so set us free."
[effect]the religious go from being the persecuted to the persecutors as it always has been
I put up a second draft even before anyone made comments. Options 3 and 4 were too macabre and unreasonable.
As always, comments and critiques are welcome.