I am rapidly coming to the belief that "hazing" is becoming a loaded term similar to "rape" or "animal abuse". IT is a word that has become so politicized, filled with symbolic meaning, and sensitized, that like the descriptive words above, it has become near impossible to discuss the issue rationally. A literal Taboo topic.
The word has become almost a slogan. How do you argue against a slogan? You don't, you either choose sides or shut up.
Its a pretty predictable result of human behavior being made into a political issue. *yawn* And equally as boring and as dangerous as everytime it has been done before.
I guess the world is changing a little bit, I mean now you can "almost" talk about "masturbation" vs. it being a political/social/religious taboo from the past . . . although I am still waiting for my palms to turn hairy and my sight to go blind, Although honestly I should have just spontaneously combusted by now
There are many that probably think that reference was totally off topic, buts its the same technology to establish a social control around a word and an ill-defined behavior. Masturbation is becoming a deconstructed taboo in the mainstream . . . hazing is currently being constructed into an active taboo topic that can be invoked to condemn people for behaviors that are vaguely defined with uncertain consequences.