- in the organism below 2.0 (on the tone scale) tending toward death, a reactive
pleasure is taken in the performance of acts which lead to succumbing on any of the
dynamics. In other words, above 2.0 pleasure is survival, and below 2.0 pleasure
is obtained only by succumbing or by bringing death to other entities, or by causing
self or other entities to be suppressed on the tone scale. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 84)