It's all a matter of opinion, Bobert. In Germany in 1939 being "saved" probably meant that you had read Mein Kampf from one end to the other and had a Nazi Party membership card. It certainly was the ticket to rapid promotion in the halls of power, anyway.

The closer a system veers toward dictatorship the more enamoured it becomes of capital punishment, because "dead men tell no tales".

- LH