#LRH45: WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU EXCLUDE PEOPLE?

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What Happens If You Exclude People?

Have you ever wanted to join a group, but were banned? Are you ever treated like a second-class citizen?

When you were in school, were there groups of kids who did not let you join them? How did that make you feel?

Most leaders do not understand an important fact about letting people into their groups, organizations, businesses and countries.

Exclusion Of Others Is The Basic Cause Of War And Insanity

"Letting people INTO the group at large is the key to every great movement and bettered culture on this planet. This was the new idea that made Buddhism the strongest civilizing influence the world has seen in terms of numbers and terrain. They did not exclude. Race, color, creed, were not made bars to membership in this great movement.

"Politically the strongest country in the world was the United States, and it was weakened only by its efforts to exclude certain races or make them second-class citizens*. Its greatest internal war (1861-65) was fought to settle this point, and the weakness was not resolved even then." -- L. Ron Hubbard from an article called "Group Sanity" (*second-class citizen: A person considered inferior)

Perhaps certain people get angry at the United States, not because they "hate liberty," but because they are excluded.

Why Let People In?

If you let people into your group, they love you for it.

If you bar people from joining your group, they hate you for it.

For example, you have a group of friends at work. You eat lunch together and have parties during the weekends. You won't include anyone new in the group. You have a clique.

One day, two new guys overhear you planning a party and ask, "Can we come?" You say, "Sorry, it's a private party."

Later that day, you notice the two new guys giving you a dirty look. The next night, you find a long, deep scratch on your car door. The following week, the boss says, "I have an anonymous report here that you've been stealing supplies. Is that true?"

You realize you create enemies by excluding them from your group.

As L. Ron Hubbard mentions, making African Americans second-class citizens caused the U.S. Civil War and thousands of American deaths. Even today, people in the United States and other modern countries exclude people because of their race or culture (Middle Eastern, Asian, Hispanic, African), sexual preference (homosexual), religion (Buddhist, Mormon, Scientologist, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim), gender (female) and age (too young, too old).

When groups and nations happily include anyone who wishes to join, they become powerful.

Recommendations

When someone wants to join your group, business or country, find a way to let them in.

Think about the past month. Did you exclude anyone from your group? Did you treat anyone like a second-class citizen?

What can you do to include him or her? How can you treat the person as an equal? Why not allow anyone to be your friend?

Also, if someone excludes you from a group, you might want to attack the person. Instead, realize he or she just does not understand the consequences of exclusion. Simply find another group.

Even better, start your own group and include everyone who wants to join. Your group will become the biggest and most powerful of all.

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