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Originally Posted by Coramoor
... the frats that have a reputation of being hard to get into practically have pledges beating down their door to get a bid. The fraternities don't tell them how bad or hard it is.
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This doesn't mean, however, that the fraternity is "good" because it hazes.
For instance, drowning rates increase in the summer months. Ice cream sales increase during the summer months. Therefore, ice cream must cause/contribute to drowning.
Just because a "top tier" fraternity hazes isn't what makes the fraternity "top tier". Chances are, said successful fraternity would be successful regardless of whether or not it hazes its pledges.
The fraternity is hard to get into because it has a good reputation. Since it has a good reputation, it has plenty of members. Since it has plenty of members, it attracts more aspirants than its less-successful counterparts. Since it attracts more aspirants, and since it has more members, it is therefore more difficult to get into than its less-successful counterparts. It doesn't follow that it is more difficult to get into due to hazing. If it does, I've missed something along the way somewhere.
So, I'd have to say that hazing is bad (just because that's my opinion, not because of anything I've actually posted confirming that belief), and doesn't make a "good" chapter good.