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Suppressive Person, often abbreviated SP, is a term used in Scientology to describe the "antisocial personalities" who, according to Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard, make up about 2.5% of the population. A statement on a Church of Scientology website describes this group as including notorious historic figures such as Adolf Hitler.〔Reitman, Janet "Inside Scientology:Unlocking the complex code of America's most mysterious religion", Rolling Stone, February 2006 pg. 6〕 The term is often applied to those whom the Church of Scientology perceives as its enemies, i.e., those whose "disastrous" and "suppressive" acts are said to impede the progress of individual Scientologists or the Scientology movement.〔Paulick, James "Scientology Wins Court Battle in Germany",Deustche Welle, 28 April 2008 - According to Hubbard, "a Suppressive Person or Group is one that actively seeks to suppress or damage Scientology or a Scientologist by Suppressive Acts….A Suppressive Person or Group becomes 'fair game.'" - http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1567596,00.html Retrieved 7 October 2008〕 One of the reasons Scientology doctrines portray Suppressive Persons as such a danger is that they are supposed to make people around them become Potential Trouble Sources (abbreviated PTS). Scientology defines a PTS as "a person who is in some way connected to and being adversely affected by a suppressive person. Such a person is called a potential trouble source because he can be a lot of trouble to himself and to others."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Church of Scientology Official Site )〕 PTSs are said to make up 17.5% of the population.〔Sommer, Mark "Breaking In, Breaking Out", Buffalo News, 31 January 2005 - "A PTS is someone from among the 20 percent of the population that Hubbard declared was predisposed against Scientology."〕 ==Origins and definitions== As with most Scientology terminology, "suppressive person" was coined by L. Ron Hubbard. In her book ''Another Gospel: Cults, Alternative Religions, and the New Age Movement'', Ruth A. Tucker wrote that the concept appeared to have first been introduced into Scientology in the 1960s "as membership grew and as authoritarian control (Hubbard ) increased." Tucker notes that many of those who joined Scientology during this period were "well-educated people who prided themselves in independent thinking () struggled with the idea of allowing any other individual to completely dominate their opinions." Many of Hubbard's early writings on suppressive persons focus on their alleged responsibility for poor management within the Church of Scientology.〔Urban, Hugh B. "Fair Game: Secrecy, Security, and the Church of Scientology in Cold War America." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 74.2 (2006): 356-389.〕 The Church's official glossary defines a suppressive person as being: :a person who possesses a distinct set of characteristics and mental attitudes that cause him to suppress other people in his vicinity. This is the person whose behavior is calculated to be disastrous. Also called ''antisocial personality''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Church of Scientology International )〕 The Church regards these "antisocial personalities" as being those "who possess characteristics and mental attitudes that cause them to violently oppose any betterment activity or group,"〔(Scientology Ethics and Judicial Matters: The Antisocial Personality ). Website accessed 2006-06-04.〕 This concern with "groups" continues in the official ''Scientology Handbook'', which states the corollary: "The antisocial personality supports only destructive groups." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Suppressive Person」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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