Death Penalty

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Introduction: When man discovers what he is truly made of and what drives his behavior, he realizes that his path upward does not lie through narrow shortcuts like 'I am a brain...'. From that point on, one truth becomes clear: Death penalty is as useless as it is futile.

The Death Penalty: as pointless as it is criminal!

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By the way, scientific research into the intelligence of the brain is beginning to break down.

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Max Hauri

Death Penalty

Excerpt from the lecture "Types of Auditing" given by L. Ron Hubbard on the 21 April 1959

The things man knows are used for evil or for good. Evil appears to be very powerful. It is actually very short-termed.

Evil is that which is done in a total emergency, without much thought, on some kind of an odd calculation that several dynamics will benefit if the evil is done. "Society will benefit if we put this man in the electric chair." That's a good idea of it. "Let's take a good, fast solution here. Let's take this murderer and let's put him in an electric chair and let's execute him."

Well, if one doesn't know the rules of the game, it is apparently a proper thing to do. But if one really knows what's going on, if he knows about a thetan, if he knows about how thetans get from life to life, if he knows what a mind is, if he knows about mental image pictures and things in suspension, he will recognize that he is now injecting in the society a man who has been punished, usually, with sufficient thoroughness to bring about a conviction that he must murder.

In other words, they get the exact opposite to what they thought was necessary.

So although everybody says, "Well, the best thing to do with a murderer is execute him, put him in an electric chair and so forth," next life comes along, what have we got? Oh, I'm afraid we've still got the same guy. I'm afraid he's now been spattered out through the society where he can't much be identified. I'm afraid we could no longer easily do a diagnosis on this person or straighten him out. And the society has been victimized by the release into its midst of a criminal.

I don't care how old this criminal is, he's nevertheless a criminal. Now he's a confirmed criminal to the degree that he's been thoroughly punished. Yet, this appears to be a good thing to do. You see that?

By the way, the reason capital punishment is quite ordinarily suspended in countries and then resumed again, is mostly because – not because they know the rules of the game but they've just sort of softened up and decided there was nothing you could do about murder anyhow, so why kill people? I mean its rationale is a bit different. We are, to a marked degree, to a much greater degree than you would realize at first glance, the people back of the actual fact of a cessation of capital punishment in the United Kingdom. But it wasn't agreed to because it was technically wrong. It was simply agreed to because it was savage and violent.

How to Define Good and Evil

You can bring about reforms. But there are evil practices in the world. And the definition of an evil practice is one that does the minimum good on the minimum number of dynamics over the shortest period of time. And that is evil.

And good is the maximum good on the maximum number of dynamics over the longest period of time. You can define good. You can define evil. Same way.

Somebody came up the other day and he said "Well, all mentally retarded children should be slain." Great, this thetan is all set to have a mentally retarded body, that's his optimum type of body. So what do you do with him? You punish him. Well, if you punish him sufficiently, you confirm it. And if it's nicely confirmed, why, then he'll go pick up another body and you've got one twice as mentally retarded.

You get how terribly short-viewed this is. And yet this chap came along, who is apparently a sane man, and says, "The best thing you can do with mentally retarded children is to kill them. Now, that's the best thing you can do with them."

Well, that's the best thing he knows how to do with them. You see that?

And so our advances along the line of handling minds, of handling man simply amount to this. We know more about it, so therefore we know the difference between right and wrong, good and evil better than other people.

But basically, all developments come in the direction of greater knowledge. And that is greater true knowledge, which is demonstrable knowledge.

When man discovers of what he is actually composed and what his behavior actually is motivated by, when man discovers that his road upward is through a recognition of his own substance and not downward through a number of errors such as "I am a brain…"

By the way, did you ever see any calves' brains? Did you ever see any calves' brains on sale in a butcher shop? You ought to go look someday and realize why a thetan, totally degraded, would after a while begin to realize that he was just a brain. Because to inhabit the center of that stuff all the time must be interestingly annoying.

Now, he doesn't know more about himself when he finds out that he is a brain. And the proof of the pudding is always its efficacy.

The proof of this is by thinking he's a brain, does he get more clever? No, he gets more stupid. By thinking he's a brain, does he have a greater grip on the social sciences? No, he has a worse grip. You get the idea?

L. Ron Hubbard