1. All blame shall be diverted downwards and outwards.

2. Nothing shall ever be resolved.

The first principle is easy to grasp. The guys at the top are never to
blame for anything. You find this in all organizations to an extent.

The second principle is harder to explain. Why should the church seek
to drag out ethics cycles indefinitely?

All organizations tend to create work for themselves. This is one
reason government has grown over the years. Nobody is starving,
cholera has been cured and yet government continues to grow as we
become more wealthy. nobody dies of starvation any more. This is
because organizations have a tendency to grow over time. This is
certainly true of Scientology ethics.

At least government has grown with the permission of the electorate.
The endless ethics cycles we see within Scientology are driven by
megalomania, internal politics and empire building.

Scientologists are supposed to be the most ethical people on the
planet. This should logically mean that they should be left alone but
we see the opposite.

Ethics are the only area of Scientology that is growing.

Work expands to fill the time available to do it. Once an ethics
officer has been appointed he will find work for himself. Almost
anything can be made into an ethics offence if you frame it the right
way.

Ethics cycles tend to grow longer and longer because nobody has the
courage to say 'stop'.

And so it goes on... without resolution.