Scientology Ethics and Ethics Conditions

Scientology Ethics and Ethics Conditions

Excerpts from Confidential Class VIII Course Lecture #13 – “Ethics and Case Supervision” (9 Oct AD 18 / 1968):

Main Theme

L. Ron Hubbard emphasizes that technical success and organizational survival depend on the correct use of Ethics conditions, and that out-Tech is always preceded by out-Ethics. The lecture blends practical management of orgs with broader social commentary.

1. The Law of Conditions

If you assign a wrong Ethics condition, the person or area drops one condition below the actual one.

Example: assigning Affluence to someone really in Non-Existence makes him fall to Liability.

This is an operating law—assigning wrong conditions leads inevitably to decline.

Correct identification and assignment of the true condition are essential.

2. Responsibility of the Receiver

The receiver of a wrong condition is responsible for protesting it.

If he accepts a wrong condition without demanding an Ethics Hearing, he is complicit in degrading the Ethics system and can be comm-eved (Court of Ethics).

Ethics must be based on truthful data, not favoritism or propitiation.

3. Ethics and Tech Interlock

When Tech goes out, Ethics comes in hard—a natural phenomenon.

The sequence:
Out Tech → Out Ethics → Out Admin.
Conversely, to repair it:
Put in Ethics → Re-establish Tech → Admin follows.

Ethics alone cannot restore order—it only holds the fort while Tech is corrected.

4. False reports and “nice guy” behavior destroy the field faster than any overt hostility.

5. Out-Tech Indicators

Bad filing, incomplete baskets, and confusion in admin lines show out-Tech.

When Tech slips, morale and production fall, and government or public flaps follow.

6. Ethics Purpose

Ethics exists only to bring about Standard Tech.

Without Tech, Ethics is pointless punishment.

Justice must have a purpose—to create a safe, productive environment where Tech works.

Ethics should be put in hard at first, then eased as Tech functions.

7. The worse the scene, the heavier the condition must be assigned for the same infraction.

Good staff stay when Ethics goes in; bad staff blow.

8. Broader Social Commentary

Hubbard criticizes modern justice and governments for rewarding down-stats and failing to maintain safety.

He compares decaying modern systems to medieval societies that at least enforced law for a productive purpose.

Governments have lost sovereignty because they cannot protect citizens (atom bomb analogy).

Scientology represents a new civilization with a viable technology of mind and ethics.

9. Final Summary Principle

“To get Tech in, put in Ethics—hard.
Ease Ethics to the degree Tech is standardly applied.”

10. The lecture concludes that Ethics, Tech, and Admin form a natural cycle:
when one fails, all degrade; when Ethics and Tech are restored, stability and production return.