Old Schopenhauer the German philosopher used to talk about a condition or state of mind known as the “Death Wish”.

We have noted this in Dianetic days as Succumb Postulates.

Anyone who doesn’t wear his hat in a group and doesn’t do his job is obviously dramatizing a death wish for the group.

What would you think of a bus driver who with 32 passengers under his care, drove with his feet up, hands off the wheel and not watching the road. It is obvious that he would be dramatizing a Death Wish for the group.

Where a person in a group, whether a government, a society or an org, does not make any intelligent effort to wear his hat he threatens his own and the group’s survival to greater or lesser degree.

We could figure out and correct all this by auditing but that is not the point. The point is that a person has his nerve pretending to be a part of a group, accepting a post and then running a Death Wish by not doing his job.

Such a person is covertly murdering his fellows.

Only this phenomenon prevents a group from becoming a true group.