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You keep asking the significance of molestation, rape, beatings, vandalism, etc, when I've already pointed it out. The significance is that they fall under the same law as humiliation. Anti-hazing laws.
Have you ever seen someone that was arrested on many charges for the same action? Say, they beat their roommate up with a bowstaff used in martial arts, and they were charged with aggravated assault, possession of a deadly weapon, etc?
Same thing here. If a group forces their new members to spray paint something, anything really, on the side of a building, if they get caught, they'd be charged with vandalism and the group itself could be charged with hazing. For one act.
The relevance is that they are all forms of hazing, and they are all illegal. If you have a problem with those laws, write your state senator. I'm sure they'd LOVE to hear from you.
While you may or may not beat or molest your pledges, you'd be suprised at the number of chapters that do. That is the reason these laws are in place. It's not just fraternities, it's sororities, all either NPC, NPHC, NIC, or locals, it's military groups, it's university groups of upperclassmen against freshmen, it's sports teams.
There's hazing all over the place. My main point is that, no matter what kind of hazing you do, be it subtle, harassment, or violent, it should be up to the fine upstanding men and women who are members of the greek community to uphold our values and completely remove ourselves from being associated with groups that haze like sports teams, etc. The only way to do that is by stopping hazing.
If we say that we are so elite, why do we stoop to the level of groups that, on the whole, we see as "beneath us" in order to instill respect and pride in our new members? There are more constructive ways to reach this end.
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