Mekka Angela Amil September 20, 2019

Grade 11 - HUMSS

Hazing
Mortifying, nerve racking, and intolerable; these words can be used to portray hazing, a
dehumanizing practice. So what is hazing? Hazing is considered to be any act that, “forces a
person to endure some sort of physical or mental abuse, harassment or humiliation as a condition
of gaining membership or acknowledgment into a group”. Extremely unsafe, hazing can be a life
or death circumstance.

The so-called rite of passage that a member must endure before he is acknowledged as a
brother in a fraternity only serves as an opportunity for members to enjoy in their savage and
sadistic streak as they yield these neophytes (someone who is new to the organization) to
horrendous beatings, not only with their hands but with paddles and other objects. It won’t also
be too implausible to say that more often than not, the most enthusiastic of these hazers are those
with mental issues, emptying their latent contempt and insecurity on neophytes – on a few stupid
reasons like they are great looking or are from “de buena familia.”

Hazing is a brutal practice that ought to be made illegal in each state so that no individual
can be hurt both physically and mentally. Those who take part in hazing mitigate viciousness and
brutality. Using hazing as a way to initiate somebody into a group is wrong since it promotes the
use of violence. The issue is that individuals confuse hazing and initiation and believe they are
the same but they are not. They are totally different in that initiation is safe though hazing is
harmful.

Building solidarity is the mental factor behind hazing, but hazing does not construct
solidarity; it tears it down. When individuals are hazed they lose their identity and their nobility.
How can that construct camaraderie? Violence cannot build team spirit since it belittles and
debilitates a person. So many youthful promising men had been put to squander. So many
dreams had been smashed. So many families had been broken. The society system has ended up
an enormous dark hole that sucks these young promising men to their graves. The fraternity as an
institution, in spite of its respectable and grand standards, has worsened into becoming a brutal
gang.

As any moral and shrewd person can see, hazing is wrong in all senses. The negative
impacts of hazing can cause students to be haunted by it for the rest of their lives. Some of the
universities where hazing is seen turn a blind eye to it and don't issue punishments serious
enough for hazing. Hazing requires more than a slap on the wrist since it condones violence,
abuses physically, and scars emotionally. Abolishing hazing in each state would guarantee the
security of understudies all over the nation.