OH...MY...GOD!!! So you mean when I asked one of my pledges who was sitting next to me in class if I could borrow a pencil because I had forgotten mine, I caused him unnecessary physical distress and totally hazed him? Excuse me for a moment while I freak out and go crazy for having screwed up...
uhh yeah... no... wake up and smell the coffee people... hazing is just about the most incredibly perception-based thing around, and some things are construed as hazing, even though they're things we all do... oh, and beating your fists on your chests going "we don't haze" is uhm, how should i put this... not the greatest thing ever either... nobody is without fault, nobody's perfect, but if you make your pledges do jumping jacks at 3am on glass, well, sorry for the bluntness, but you deserve to have that glass shoved somewhere... yeah, hazing doesn't create good brotherhood, but there are different things that happen that are construed as hazing... such as making your pledge drink a bottle of alcohol, or making him (or her) repeat the alphabet... do you guys see any differences between those 2? Well, I do... when I mean repeating the alphabet, I don't mean embarassing him/her in public, but maybe when it's just you and him, or at education... both of those things are "hazing", but to make an analogy, it's like saying pot is as bad as cocaine... while nobody dies from using cannibus, people OD on coke more than anybody here would like to acknowledge... yet the DEA says pot's just as bad as coke... i think there should be a line drawn between what's real hazing, and what's "fake" hazing...
Fraternally yours, Dragos