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"Willingness" doesn't matter. Any Greek pledge being hazed is "willing" - he or she can walk away or quit just about any time. I think it's safe to say that most hazing is activities most of us don't enjoy doing on a regular basis (yum, eating feces!). The willingness to participate (on the part of the hazees) comes from the desire for acceptance. In the case of a GLO, the price of unwillingness is losing your membership; here it would be social ostracization.
In sum, if willing participation in hazing were legally considered a defense, almost no hazing would be prosecutable. Compare it to being mugged. "Well, you chose to give Mr. Thief your wallet when he threatened you, didn't you? You didn't fight back or try to take his gun? You just handed over your money? So what are you complaining about?" The idea is that true willingness is not possible in the face of coercion.
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