The child becomes angry and makes some effort to injure the dog. The dog comes still nearer and is more threatening. The child becomes afraid. Fear unavailing, the child cries. If the dog still threatens him, the child may go into an apathy and simply wait to be bitten.
Every person has a chronic or habitual tone.
He or she moves up or down the Tone Scale as he experiences success or failure. These are temporary, or acute, tone levels. A primary goal of Scientology is to raise a person's chronic position on the Tone Scale. Objects or animals or people which assist survival, as they become inaccessible to the individual, bring him down the Tone Scale. Objects, animals or people which threaten survival, as they approach the individual, bring him down the Tone Scale.