Ethics | LRH vs COB
LRH — Founder of Dianetics and Scientology
“ETHICS consists simply of the actions an individual takes on himself. It is a personal thing. When one is ethical or “has his ethics in”, it is by his own determinism and is done by himself.”
HCO PL 12 July 1980R
The Basics of Ethics
(OEC Vol. 1, p. 496)
“Ethics are not to be confused with justice. Justice is used only after a failure of the individual to use ethics on himself. With personal ethics in across the dynamics, third dynamic justice disappears…”
HCO PL 9 July 1980
Ethics, Justice, and the Dynamics
(OEC Vol. 1, p. 486)
“… if a person is doing his job…ethics is considered to be in and the person is protected by Ethics.”
HCO PL 1 September 1965, Issue VII
Ethics Protection
(OEC Vol. 0, p. 502)
“Orders only occur where responsibility has failed.”
HCO PL 23 January 1968
Orders and Responsibility
(OEC Vol. 0, p. 139)
David Miscavige — SELF-APPOINTED CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, RTC
Since the earliest days of Dianetics and Scientology, LRH has emphasized integrity and self-determinism as qualities central to a being. After LRH’s departure in the mid 1980s, however, more and more actions once considered a matter of personal choice became the object of orders and threats.
Following COB’s inspection of the Solo NOTs line at Flag in 2005, and again in 2006, a series of FSO EDs were published. Each added a new item to the growing list of “mandatories”, especially for Solo NOTs auditors:
1) Mandatory event attendance:
“Flag Scientologists are counted upon to attend all International Scientology events — no exceptions.”
FSO ED 8763
17 April 2007
2) Mandatory FSMing:
“Get 2 people onto Solo NOTs. When at Flag for your six-month check, you will be asked about this by your MAA and what we are looking for is compliance.”
FSO ED 8782
24 May 2007
3) Mandatory IAS Patron status:
“That’s why…you must become a PATRON OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCIENTOLOGISTS. This is the minimum expected status.”
FSO ED 8432
18 January 2006
These are in addition to previous orders for mandatory OT Committee membership and mandatory Ideal Org participation.
The actual ethical requirements for Clears and OTs are covered in such policies as An Open Letter to All Clears and OT Courses. Neither these nor any other LRH reference tell the pre-OT how he must contribute in order to be eligible for OT Levels.