Ethics Committee

"Whats an Ethics Committee?"

The Ethics Committee is one of the many various administrative departments in the SCP Foundation which is just as mysterious to most personnel as the O5 Council. While the O5 Council handle running the Foundation and ensuring its ultimate goals are achieved, the Ethics Committee focuses on ensuring that excessive lives are not lost due to testing or containment. They focus more on Protect in the acronym opposed to the O5 who focus on Secure and Contain.

The Ethics Committee is not hard-set on preventing deaths for the sake of the mission but are against lives lost for no good reason, such as waste of D-Class on testing that could warrant no purpose, D-Class being mindlessly executed for trivial matters, or general incompetence.

Ethics Committee personnel can be found as random employees who are particularly employed in the Research department. This does not give them more authority in the Foundation (it might even result in mocking) but it does allow them to annotate and report to the Ethics Committee directly regarding unethical proceedure.