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I guess one person's degrading is another person's bonding experience. I do not believe my whole argument as presented throughout this thread says that hazing is always dangerous or degrading--in fact, I do not believe that at all (read my post on unhealthy traditions.) The center of my argument is that there are ways to accomplish unity without hazing, and I find many of those activities will create stronger bonds and build stronger membership in our organizations.
Second to that, because we have rules that forbid certain activities and call them hazing, we should not engage in those activities. My thoughts on this are two fold--some of those activities are not positive in nature and, second, if the activities are uncovered and discovered, Greek letter organizations as a whole will get a bad name for the actions of a few. As I have said before, if you do not like the rules, then you should work to change them, not simply decide to ignore.
And the reason I think I can make generalizations is because I have studied this topic extensively in my own organization, in my master's coursework, including a legal issues in higher education class this semester, and I, myself, have experienced the results of hazing.
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