There have been several threads on the issue of whether Greeks should wear letters while drinking, or whether letters should be on glasses that have an alcohol cannotation: You can have letters on a water bottle but not Champagne Flutes.
It seems almost universal that everyone agreed that drinking while in letters was bad.
After reading the threads I have some philosophical problems that I was hoping y'all could help me solve. ITs caused me some cognitive dissonance as I find that the reality is not meeting the image.
1. We know that drinking is not unethical, and not "bad" so why is not approproate to drink while in letters? Did drinking become "dirty" (like having sex with a close cousin) when I wasn't looking?
2. So since drinking is not unethical or "bad" then it wouldn't be against our core values, correct? Therefore doing a perfectly acceptable activity doesn't represent our organizations badly?
3. And what about mixers? There is an event we go to only because we are Greek and only because we belong to a specific organization. Its a fundamental expression of ourselves as social organizations. Shouldn't we wear letters there? We do make party shirts . . .
4. Or, are we so concerned about the drinking-in-letters issue because we want to falsely advertise ourselves? To do actions and then claim that we don't do them?
Isn't that a funamental hypocrisy?
(edited to add)
So help a brother out and explain this stuff to me . . .. .
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