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mls2008 -
You're making a huge assumption that brotherhood can only be created through joint physical difficulties between the members. You are having the trouble connecting the arguments since it is only the current, un-initiated pledgeclass that is forced into this bonding. Your particular example becomes hazing when it excludes the upperclassmen (including the pledge educator) since they are not participating in the "punishment" for a member failing to learn their s**t. And ... to go a step further, by the upperclassmen not participating (by doing push-ups too) in this ritual, you don't have brotherhood, you have a group of people (pledges) that hate the initiated members for inflicting this punishment upon them creating cliques within your organization that then tear apart the brotherhood you are trying so desperately to build.
Finally, as to your example about helping an intoxicated brother following a party, I personally would be less willing to help a person, no matter his letters or affiliation if that person was a total d**k to me. What goes around comes around and if you want help from your brothers, perhaps you should help them instead of yell at them and require them to do physical punishments.
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