1. Human beings have two and only two basic goals—happiness and/or truth.

2. Objective truth is measured entirely by how much it increases our ability to predict and control the total environment—physical, biological and psychosocial.

3. The total environment transcends all time and space.

4. Happiness is the subjective belief that our strongest desires are being fulfilled.

5. An ethical person is one in whom the basic desire for objective truth is stronger than the basic desire for happiness. He may occasionally behave unethically.

6. An unethical person is one in whom the basic desire for happiness is stronger than the basic desire for objective truth. He may occasionally behave ethically.

7. A moral person has objective truth as his sole desire, and he cares nothing for his or any other person's happiness. He never behaves unethically.

8. An immoral person has happiness as his sole desire, and he cares nothing for objective truth. He never behaves ethically.

9. To be creative is to organize the environment into new patterns which increase the ability of at least one ethical person to predict and control the total environment while not decreasing any ethical person's ability.

10. To be destructive is to disorganize the environment into patterns which decrease at least one ethical person's ability to predict and control the total environment.

11. Destruction, however minor, can never increase creativity.

12. The more unethical a person is, the more destructive he will be for a given level of intelligence.

13. Immoral persons can only destroy; they never create again once they are immoral.

14. The more ethical a person, the more creative he will be for a given level of intelligence.

15. Moral persons will only create; they never destroy again once they become moral.

16. Ethics are relative, but morality is absolute.

17. Ethics exist on a continuum with purely creative behavior at one extreme and purely destructive behavior at the other extreme; the midpoint is the dividing line of trivia between ethical and unethical behavior.

18. The more ethical a person is, the less neurotic he will be for a given biological endowment.

19. Moral persons are devoid of all neuroses.

20. Neuroses are learned patterns of behavior which decrease a person's ability to predict and control his total environment.

21. The creativity of moral persons is limited only by their intelligence.

22. Intelligence is the ability to predict and control the total environment.

23. The communication of objective truth increases intelligence but does not necessarily increase creativity.

24. To increase the intelligence of unethical persons in general and immoral persons in particular is to increase their ability to destroy.

25. To increase the intelligence of ethical persons in general and moral persons in particular is to increase their ability to create.

26. Ethical Therapy is a means of increasing a person's desire for objective truth.

27. The successful application of Ethical Therapy will make ethical persons moral.

28. All human beings are born ethical, as is evidenced by the fact that they grow in creativity while they are children.

29. Persons become unethical by environmental factors which condition them through the applications of pain and pleasure to value happiness above objective truth.

30. Persons remain ethical and become moral because of environmental factors which condition them through pain and pleasure to value objective truth above happiness.

31. Truth is always a source of happiness, i.e., a reward, for moral persons.

32. For persons who are not moral, truth is a source of happiness, i.e., a reward, if and only if it confirms their prejudices and positive expectations; otherwise it is a punishment, i.e., a source of unhappiness.

33. Subjective truth can be as strong a reward as objective truth for persons who are not moral.

34. A moral person is rewarded only by objective truth.

35. Psychofraud is a process which uses subjective truth, and only subjective truth, as a reward; it is an unscientific psychosocial model.

36. Ethical Therapy is a process which uses objective truth, and only objective truth, as a reward.

37. The more unethical a person becomes, the less likely it is that objective truth will reward him, since happiness is increasingly his sole objective and happiness can easily be engendered by psychofraud.

38. The happiness of all immoral persons and most unethical persons is dependent on the illusions of psychofraud.

39. All unethical persons will resist any attempt to expose the psychofraud which they have embraced.

40. Persons embrace psychofraud only as a means of being happy.

41. To believe that one can predict and control any aspect of the total environment always makes persons happy.

42. To believe that one cannot predict and control some aspect of the total environment makes all persons who are not moral unhappy.

43. The part of the total environment which persons desire most to predict and control is their own mind.

44. Persons become unethical if they use psychofraud as a means of predicting and controlling their own thoughts and perceptions.

45. Dependency on psychofraud destroys the potential for ethical development.

46. Ethical Therapy can only succeed with ethical persons; it will fail with any unethical person.

47. Unethical persons can never again be made ethical; if given the opportunity, they will decrease the ethics of those who still are ethical but not yet moral.

48. If Ethical Therapy is to succeed, ethical persons must disassociate from unethical persons.

49. Ethical Therapy is administered by association with ethical persons.

50. Ethical Therapy is best administered by moral persons.

51. Only an ethical person can be an Ethical Therapist.

52. The greater the ethics of the persons with whom we associate, the greater will be the Ethical Therapeutic effect.

53. The more ethical and the fewer unethical persons we associate with, the greater will be the Ethical Therapeutic effect.

54. An ethical person can be his own Ethical Therapist, although this is the least effective form of Ethical Therapy.

55. Auto-Ethical Therapy involves consciously using objective truth as the criterion by which all decisions are made.

56. The more often objective truth is used as a criterion for making decisions, the more ethical the person will become.

57. The more often happiness is used as a criterion for making decisions, the less ethical a person will become.

58. Although subjective truth can be a valid ethical criterion for making decisions, it is invalid (1) when it conflicts with objective truth and (2) when it is used as a sole criterion and never subjected to objective scientific tests.

59. The effects of Ethical Therapy, however applied, are (1) increased creativity and (2) a decrease in neuroses.

60. An increase in creativity is an objective measure of Ethical Therapeutic effectiveness.

61. A decrease in neurosis as manifested by a decrease in our own anxiety and destructive emotions is a subjective test of Ethical Therapeutic effectiveness.

62. Emotions are genetically preprogrammed patterns of behavior which predispose us to act fearfully, aggressively or lovingly— independently of any logical analysis of the ethical consequences of our acts.

63. The more ethical we become, the less our actions are determined by emotions.

64. A moral person is devoid of all emotions, but not of sensitivity, human warmth, joy, aesthetic sensibility or ethical love.

65. Ethical love is not an emotion, but a deliberate, logical choice made to increase the intelligence of another person for the purpose of maximizing objective truth.

66. Emotional love as well as fear and aggression can serve ethical purposes and are essential to the evolution of a species and an individual; however, these emotions are easily perverted and can become destructive in an unethical environment.

67. The more unethical a person becomes, the more that person seeks to cater to his emotional whims irrespective of their ethical effects, although an unethical person may be very logical and deliberate in satisfying his emotional needs, e.g., Hitler and Stalin.

68. Only actions which increase objective truth (i.e., ethical intelligence and creativity) are ethical.

69. Any action which decreases objective truth (i.e., ethical intelligence and creativity) for any person is unethical.

70. Unethical means can never achieve ethical ends.

71. Means which are not ends are never ethical.

72. It is unethical to tolerate unethical behavior.

73. It is unethical to be certain.

74. It is ethical to doubt.

75. Inaction is unethical.

76. Ethical Therapy is based on the application of the preceding eight ethical principles to every aspect of our lives.

77. A society which incorporates the eight ethical principles into all its decisions is an Ethical State.

78. Only ethical persons can create an Ethical State.

79. Only an Ethical State can create a Moral Society.

80. In a Moral Society all persons become moral and fully creative; it is the evolutionary destiny of the human race.