Dear Fred:
Oh yeah, sure, abolish fraternities and sorrorities. That will solve all the hazing problems. Wait a minute, what about all those high school kids who get hazed when they join sports teams? Their deaths don't count?
You might want to check your history too. Greeks didn't invent hazing. Testing one's loyalty or abilities or whatever prior to initiation into exclusive organizations was practiced centuries before this nation or any GLO's were even founded. Besides, even the U.S. military "hazes" its recruits and officer candidates. Does that mean that we should abolish the military too?
I don't condone hazing at all because hazing is forcing someone ot do something against their will as a condition of earning status or title. If a person has no objection to such treatment, then the act in question is not hazing. If a person has objections to such treatment, then it is that individual's responsibility to reevaluate whether or not that organization is one they truly want to join. Like many other things in life, GLO's are not for everybody, but hey are for some. Just because some people are not willing to accept the conditions of joining an exclusive organization, it does not mean that others should be denied the opportunity to try.
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