Thanks, dnall. I understand where you were coming from much better now. While you read 33girl's question theoretically, I read it concretely -- as a reference to orgs like those in the NPHC or traditionally Jewish orgs. So, I read your answer as a concrete response, complete with "they should dissolve." Given the posts of those who responded to you, including 33girl, I'd wager they were all looking at the question and answer concretely as well. Hence the breakdown in communication. Ah, the challenges of the internet..
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Originally Posted by dnall
If it makes either of you feel better, I will retract the way I originally stated my opinion, and say instead: If MY fraternity lost touch with its purpose, I would move heaven and earth to force it to reconnect. If it did not have an original change the world purpose or had completed that purpose, then I would force by all possible means it to remake itself with such a purpose nationally and permanently. If I found that not to be possible, I would work to dissolve it, not because I don't love it, but because exactly because I do.
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I got no problem at all with that.
But I am still curious as to why the emphasis on a "change the world" purpose as opposed some other noble purposes.
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