- the term is used to denote ethics as a subject, or the use of ethics, or
that section of a Scientology Church which handles ethics matters. (BTB 12 Apr 72R)
- ethics actually consist, as we can define them now in Dn, of rationality toward
the highest level of survival for the individual, the future race, the group, and mankind,
and the other dynamics taken collectively. Ethics are reason. The highest ethic
level would be long-term survival concepts with minimal destruction, along any of the
dynamics. (SOS, p. 128)
- ethics has to do with a code of agreement amongst people that they will conduct
themselves in a fashion which will obtain to the optimum solution of their problems.
(5008C30)
- the rules or standards governing the conduct of the members of a profession. (HCO PL 3
May 72)
- ethics is a personal thing. By definition, the word means "the study of the
general nature of morals and the specific moral choices to be made by the individual in
his relationship with others." (AND) When one is ethical or "has his ethics
in" it is by his own determination and is done by himself. (HCOB 15 Nov 72 II)
- that which is enforced by oneself, his belief in his own honor, and good reason, and
optimum solution along the eight dynamics. (PDC 37)