Rotten 8-C

“ Now, you can do that with a little kid. If this little boy is running around hitting all the little girls in the neighborhood with his wagon, I can be absolutely certain that his parents run rotten 8-C. Just terrible 8-C. They might be very nice to him. Everybody say, 'Well, they’re good parents.' By all observances, they’re fine for him.

“ But this is the most peculiar thing in the world to witness. It is not whether they clothe him well. It is not whether they are nice or sweet or kind to him. These do not seem to have very much of an operating factor in establishing his goodness or badness, his smartness or his dullness or any other factor. It’s whether or not they run good, consistent control. ”

by L. Ron Hubbard