Hazing: Is it always bad?

[Beggar]

I will making a speech to a group in my city about hazing. I am a member of a local fraternity that was founded in 1923. We are a fraternity that has only one chapter, so we don't have a national. I was initiated in 1992 and during my pledge season, myself and all 15 of my pledge brothers were "hazed." Hazed under the dictionary definition of hazing, that is. Which I take to mean: anything that anyone may consider embarrasing, or a little hard to do. I have looked at many threads about hazing here, and I guess I would consider most of what was done in my pledge season as pledging. We did do many things that were hard and difficult and it took me and my 15 pledge brothers to get through it. We struggled and fought and persevered. And in the end I was proud to call these men my brothers. I was also paddled. One lick, one time. I didn't mind, because it was either me or someone else, so I wanted to get it. My pledge brothers felt the same way. However, I do not agree with a lot of the hazing that I am reading about. The excess drinking, the physical abuse or the degrading stuff. I can tell by what I have read here, that most of you disagree with hazing, I can also tell that most of you have not been hazed. What I would really like to find out, is if there is anyone that has been hazed that agrees with it. If you do, why. And just to a small extent, tell me what kind of things did you do. I would also like to hear from those of you that were hazed and don't agree with it. I would really like to use this forum as evidence for my speech in Louisiana. If you do not want your message printed and used in my speech, please say so.