I'm not one of Jehovah's Witnesses and the brothers won't be able to trust me when the time comes to go undercover due to being attacked by the
authorities.
Those words spoken in itself doesn't sound like someone who's in good mental health.
One other thing that gets sometimes unnoticed is that if a family has been brought up inside the organization and a son starts heading for the exit door,
this shines a bad light on to the father of the son. Which could present damaging results for the father's advocation to move himself upward
within the congregation. Even still its a bit of nutty stupid thing to say to anyone irregardless.
Fathers do not want their sons leaving the religion for many invariable reasons.