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One of the problems with Hubbard's ethics technology is that his structure is designed to always put the interests and goals of Scientology, and the valence of a "Scientologist", ahead of all other considerations and circumstances. He created a structural analysis that is designed to come up with the same solutions no matter what the problem is.
Providing some kind of structure to the analysis of problems is good because we, as human beings, have biases, and emotional upsets, and other obstacles that many times keep us from coming to the best solutions. The problem the structural analysis that Scientology ethics tech provides, however, is that the structure is rigged to trap you.
FOR EXAMPLE: The structural tool of "the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics" gives your own self-interests (the first dynamic) 1/8th of the weight of all the other dynamics.
And since all Scientologists are taught to believe that Scientology will save all mankind and every other dynamic in the universe - the solutions you come up with using this analytic structure, over time, will always favor Scientology's interests over your own. Over time, and over many applications of Hubbard's ethics tech, your own goals will be de-valued, and all of Scientology's goals will be over-valued.
The structure of the analysis itself is flawed. And, applying this structure, so will your solutions be.
It's good to have access to a non-biased problem-solving technology which can be used to come to unique and workable solutions for each individual problem.
I found one that is a step up from Hubbard's Ethics technology. And so I'd like to suggest it to you as something to evaluate.
The idea of a structured analysis to problems is covered well in a very good book by a former CIA analyst named Morgan Jones. He provides 14 different tools you can use to structure the analysis of problems - business or personal - and to make sure that your biases, emotions and other factors that can throw off your best solutions will remain at bay during your problem solving process.
The book is called "The Thinker's Toolkit" and I highly recommend it.
Now don't get me wrong - Scientology ethics tech, when I first learned it, gave me great hope.
It gave me the idea that if I was ethical, then I could be happy. And if I could become more ethical, then I could become more happy.
When I was first introduced to it, I began applying it, and it worked like a bomb. It was an extremely valuable lesson for me. It produced HUGE benefits right away and it really turned me around personally. I had huge wins. So I will always be grateful to myself that I was smart enough, and enough of an independent thinker, to walk into a Scn mission and to learn that technology and to use it to improve my own life.
But as a technology for problem solving, I found that Scientology ethics technology is, ultimately, booby-trapped. Hubbard took an idea and turned it into a way he could use to control the minds and lives of people from whom he wanted ALL of their money and anything of value that they had. Hubbard's ethics tech became a deeply intrusive game for him to reach into and control the minds of people who were distracted elsewhere, and who only wanted a better life for themselves.
Some of the basic messages of Scientology Ethics tech are valid. But as with so much Scientology technology, Hubbard got you to accept these valid basic messages early on, and then he began twisting things to his own advantage.
It is too bad that Hubbard was so corrupt.
Otherwise, he would not have been ruled by his own greed and could simply let other people prosper.
Happy 100th Birthday, L. Ron Hubbard.
May all your birthdays be remembered with the ways that you tried to trap people, and may all your tricks be used to teach people how to never fall into traps like yours again.
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