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Originally Posted by AlphaSigOU
If this person can't - or won't - keep a secret, I'd have a very hard time trusting him or her for anything else.
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This is how I feel; the secrets are important, but also important is the act of keeping those secrets from people who are not members of the organization. I think that if someone is more than willing to spill their guts about handshakes and the like, they're more likely to talk openly about chapter business (fights between members, contentious meetings, sanctions against members) with those outside the chapter.
I think part of the reason for the pledge/new member period is to spot those tendencies. If a pledge or new member is told esoteric info (not necessarily ritual), or private info about a brother, and they go around telling everyone that info, it's a sign that maybe they won't keep secrets when they are a brother/sister of the organization.
There's no perfect process, though, and obviously there will be instances where someone slips through and blabs all sort of secrets.
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