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Originally Posted by icebrain
My take on the matter, shared with a good friend at UC, is that there are only three organizations (maybe four) that have justification for hazing:
The military
Law enforcement
Fire department
CIA and other such orgs (for field positions, at least)
Reason being, they need to know how you will respond under stress and in situations that may leave you or your buddies dead.
Our organization's take is that anyone who feels he needs to abuse or ridicule someone for no other reason than being a pledge trying to join an organization based on values such as ours is that we don't want him. We used to have problems with this in the past, and we realized it was hurting us badly. Essentially, to haze is to violate the basic values that we are based upon.
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Fraternities "haze" to know how you will respond under stress as well. Will you put yourself on the line for your brothers, or be a coward? There is no better way to see somebodies REAL character then to put them in a difficult situation and see how they act. How else are you supposed to know that you can really trust your own pledge brothers? Because they took some stupid oath and know the same ritual as you? Gimme a break.