We need to define what hazing is, rather than saying "anything that harms someone physically or mentally."
Can you imagine if a police officer tried to arrest someone and wrote "harmed someone physically" on the warrant without being more specific. Our ambiguity leaves us open to people crying hazing for basically nothing - or chapters being yanked by HQ for "hazing" when actually hazing wasn't even involved and the real reason is something totally different. You get so sick of hearing this that when it IS a case of real hazing, you figure it's the same old same old.
I agree with Lennoxx, as long as people can say anything done to them was hazing, and the GLOs believe the accuser instead of their own brothers or sisters, real hazing will continue to exist.
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