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The subjects of Ethics and Morals were greatly confused in Scientology because after making a clear distinction between the two in is early writings on them, LRH then proceeded to use the word "ethics" all over the place when, by his own earlier definitions, he meant morals. The subject remained confusing and a quagmire for all until Mary Freeman sorted it out and developed her First Dynamic Ethics program. ETHICS: 1. Ethics is the application of reason in the attainment of optimum survival. At its most basic it means to bring into alignment a person's Beingness, Doingness and Havingness. 2. Ethics actually consists, as we define it now in Scientology, of rationality toward the highest level of survival for the individual, the future race, the group, and mankind, and the other dynamics of life taken collectively. Ethics are reason. The highest ethic level would be long-term survival concepts with minimal destruction, along any of the dynamics of life. 3. Ethics is a personal thing. When one is ethical or "has his ethics in" it is by his own determination and is done entirely by himself out of his belief in his own honour, and good reason, as optimum solution across his eight dynamics. MORALS: A code of conduct which serves as a standard of acceptable behaviour for the members of a group. It is usually derived from the past experience of that group or from revelations and commandments from the deity. They are the agreed upon codes of conduct of a society which are sometimes given the force of law. What is moral in one group could be considered to be totally immoral by another. Rules which were once pro-survival could become contra-survival as time and circumstances change. A hundred years ago it was considered immoral to divorce; today it is considered immoral to continue in an unhappy marriage. Morals are an entirely arbitrary code of conduct and are not necessarily related to reason or good sense, but they are important in that they make a stable society possible. Morals relate to survival only insofar as continued membership of that group relates to survival. As a rule of thumb one can safely say that if it can be written up as a rule to be followed (by self or others) then it is the field of Morals and not Ethics. In the CofS they ardently applied "ethics" to a person's third dynamic position in the Org while allowing his first dynamic condition to remain in Treason or below. In fact it was often demanded that the first dynamic should be in a very low condition in order for him to be acceptable to the Org on the third. The insanity of this should be obvious to all. One lives life on all dynamics simultaneously. To think one can sacrifice one dynamic so as to benefit another is as nutty as chopping one's right leg off so as to walk better on the left. All eight dynamics must be brought up into high conditions in order to travel the road to OT. _______________________________________________ Trom mailing list [email protected] http://lists.newciv.org/mailman/listinfo/trom
