“Now, here we have—survival in abundance. Survival in abundance will get somebody through. It’ll get a group through. This group has to operate, however, on the engineering principle of factor of safety. An engineer who builds a bridge to stand 100 tons when 100 tons is going to be the common load of that bridge has violated a fundamental of abundance and the bridge will wear a little bit, sag a little bit, somebody was a little dishonest with his material and down will go the bridge. So, he builds it to hold 500 tons because he knows its normal load will be 100 tons. …
“When you have violated a factor of safety in living, you have violated a primary concept of survival in that, in order to survive any length of time, an individual has to have a lot of wherewithal. Furthermore, he has to survive through and with many things in order to guarantee his survival.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture The Dynamics of Existence delivered on 13 August 1951. This can be found in the Special Course in Human Evaluation lectures. Track 7.
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