Why is hazing bad for society? What is causing it? What are possible effects?
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Are you kidding me?\nHazing is usually when a group of people make others do something which they normally wouldn't do, in order to "belong" to the group (i.e.: In order to join a fraternity, you have to spray paint the Dean's house with pink spray).\nIt is usually caused by people within the organization as a test of wills, courage, etc...\nThe really bad thing about hazing is that never stops, and it evolves into more, and more dangerous dares.\nFor example: If you want to join a sorority, this year you have to throw eggs at the teachers car.\nNext year, you're part of the group, and you have to think of something more daring, like throw a brick through that same teacher's house window.\nThe year after that, they have to think of something worse, so they dare the "newbies" to throw a burning cocktail thorugh the windows, etc...etc..\nIt usually starts small (maybe giving a "pink" belly by smacking it while other people are holding you down), but it quickly gets worse and worse...that is the worst part of hazing. People don't know whe to quit!
250119
well yeah alcohol is dangerous it slows down your system and that cant be healthy for your studies in school. so some kids eventually drop out.
26425
kids will be kids.\n\nSome people get a thrill out of making life miserable for other people.  It's a power thing.  Just like you wanting to "strike back".\n\nDon't contribute to the problem.  Instead, spend your energy on getting something to prevent you from being booted.
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You mean the effects a group has being "for" or "against" an organization or individual effectiveness?\n\nThe are many impacts:\nSocial, economical, political, physical injury, mental injury.\nIs the "group" peaceful or antisocial?\nIs the organization or individual -  "good or "bad"?\nIf a group does not like something they can boycott it and sales drop, or like it and sales rise. \nTo raise or lower morale of a group - an organization or individual has great influence, by its actions or inaction's.\nPeople live in,  or move from a town by it's perceived or actual morale being good or bad.\nThere are too many impacts a group can have for me to list.
619581
True, religion is a detrimental force in society.  It promotes lemming-like behavior.  Worse yet it promotes gang mentality where if you are not part of the gang you are looked down on or even killed.
504304
which social effects are you refering to. there are so many aspects of society. well,, i will just quote few references as random . \n\n"...and do good; surely God loves the good-doers." (Quran 2:195)\n\n"And God loves those who are firm and steadfast." (3:146)\n\n"Say to the believing men that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty: that will make for greater purity for them: And God is well acquainted with all that they do.  (The Noble Quran, 24:30)"\n \nAllah does not love the aggressors.(Quran 2:190)\n\n".....but Allah does not love disorder." (Quran 2:205)\n\n"And swell not thy cheek (for pride) at men, nor walk in insolence through the earth; for God loveth not any arrogant boaster.  (The Noble Quran, 31:18)" \n\nNoble Verse 17:37 "Nor walk on the earth with insolence: for thou can not rend the earth asunder, nor reach the mountains in height." \n\n"But if the enemy incline towards peace, do thou (also) incline towards peace, and trust in God: for He is One that heareth and knoweth (all things).  (The Noble Quran, 8:61)" \n\n"We have enjoined on man kindness to parents: but if they (either of them) strive (to force) thee to join with Me (in worship) anything of which thou hast no knowledge, obey them not. Ye have (all) to return to me, and I will tell you (the truth) of all that ye did.  (The Noble Quran, 29:8)"\n\n\nNor take life - which God has made sacred - except for just cause. And if anyone is slain wrongfully, we have given his heir authority (to demand qisas or to forgive): but let him nor exceed bounds in the matter of taking life; for he is helped (by the Law).  (The Noble Quran, 17:33)"\n\n"Nor come nigh to adultery: for it is a shameful (deed) and an evil, opening the road (to other evils).  (The Noble Quran, 17:32)"\n\n"As to the thief, Male or female, cut off his or her hands: a punishment by way of example, from God, for their crime: and God is Exalted in power. But if the thief repents after his crime, and amends his conduct, God turneth to him in forgiveness; for God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.  (The Noble Quran, 5:38-39)"\n\n\n\n\nAvoid envy, for envy devours good deeds just as fire devours fuel.   The Prophet Mohammed (may God bless him and grant him peace) \nAmong the best of you [are they] who have the best character. \n     The Prophet Mohammed (may God bless him and grant him peace)
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This happened in 2005 to a young man who was the victim of hazing in Chico, CA.\n\n"Forced water consumption and heavy exercise are known to dilute the salt content of blood to the point where it interferes with brain, heart and muscle function. Without enough sodium, the brain swells and victims can suffer fatal comas.\n\nCarrington's (the fraternity pledge)  friend who survived the hazing told police that he and Carrington each were forced to drink about five gallons of water. They were kept up all night in the fraternity's basement doing rigorous calisthenics as fraternity members splashed them with ice water and turned fans in their direction."\n\nhttp://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/04/BAGNSB576121.DTL
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I can spout the party line about hazing being wrong, blah blah blah. The stuff that you hear about (jump wings pounded onto the chest with no backs on the pins, being raped with foreign objects, etc. etc.) is sick and sadistic. \n\nYes, while I was at Parris Island, there was a blanket party. No, it was not encouraged by the drill instructors, as far as I am aware, they had no knowledge of it, on the other hand, they know everything that goes on in their platoon. Afterwards, only the Senior Drill instructor was upset about it, because it happened to 'his boy' (very long story, but we were told at the beginning that this individual would be the honor recruit because of who his father was, and he was given a lot more chances than everyone else because of this fact). It was one of our last nights there, and it was retribution for being 'daddy's boy'. I did not participate, more from a lack of oppurtunity than anything else. I was on firewatch around zero dark thirty, and was taking out the trash. Had I been there, I probably would have taken part, because I was thoroughly pissed with him as well. \n\nBut for every one of these that you hear about, how many 'hazings' and initiations do you not hear about because nothing happened? The Marine that earned his jump wings and was "pinned" (the beating of his wings with no backs on the points, suffered a punctured lung and basically drowned overnight), well, when I was promoted to Sergeant, I was pinned as well. In the tradition and spirit in which it was meant to be done. My executive officer and my wife stepped forward, pulled the corporal stripes off my collar points, put the Sergeant stripes on. The XO stepped back, shook my hand with one, and patted me on the collar with the other....firmly. No blood was drawn, but it stung a little. \n\nHazing (in the very malicious sense of the word) is not as wide spread as everyone would like to believe. Initiations like pinning are supposed to be a right of passage upon accomplishing something, but there are always those who take it too far. \n\nAt times, however, there are those leaders that cannot or will not do what is necessary for good order and discipline, and while I do not condone extreme violence, sometimes a good ass kicking is what is needed.\n\nAfter all the work my Senior did for the honor recruit, he got locked up for cocaine use one week before he was supposed to ship out for Officer Candidate School.
36034
because beer is acceptable to society and cigarettes are not. both are equally bad for the body. and minus the smell smokers are a whole lot better to hang out with, well as aposed to drunks. try video taping a drunk person and show it to them later not a pretty show.
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It is believed "alcohol consumption is undesirable and dangerous; it typically results in problem behavior; and drinking in any degree is equally undesirable because moderate social drinking is the forerunner of chronic inebriation. Naturally, young people, if not everyone, should be protected from alcohol, according to this view."
315990
because people have a need for a secure group... groups themselves arent bad, I mean people tend to gather with people of similar intersets.. but they become cliquey when people won't let other people in.
625012
The answer to social problems is not capitalism or communism, it is somewhere in between ... ideally humanism  applied in governmental form. Sadly power and corruption at the top level generally ensures that which ever system is in operation is mis-used to the detriment of the masses and therefore doomed to eventually fail .... bummed out  millions versus bunkered government ... no contest, if you see what I mean.
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Topic 1 - I used to work at a Private High School that required uniforms.  \n\nPro - 1) Uniforms make everyone equal (or appear equal).  You don't have the problem of the "rich" kids looking rich and well you know.\n2) Fosters a feeling of belonging.  Look at any sports team.  They all have uniforms.  Why?  Because it shows everyone else that they are part of this team.  So for schools, it can (depending on the uniform) identify you as "belonging" to this school.\n3) Uniforms reduce the amount of time teenagers spend "worrying" about what to wear, so they can spend more time concentrating on their school work (Hey, these are not my reasons - these are the ones the school gave.  Personally, I always had difficulty maintaining a straight face with that one).\n4) Uniforms reduce the overall cost of clothing that parents have to spend.  Uniforms only need to be replaced if they are outgrown or damaged.  Unlike regular cloths which go in an out of fashion constantly, and therefore must be purchased on a regular basis so that the student can "be in style".\n\nCon:\n1) Uniforms provide an "institutional" like atmosphere that forces teenagers to conform to one standard.  It starts the job of making them into "followers" and conformers.\n2) Uniforms constitute a militaristic idea, and works to destroy individuality, and free-thinking.\n3) Uniforms do not destroy peer hierarchy based on clothing.  Instead it forces everyone into the same clothing - the style of which accentuates some body types and looks terrible on others.  The individual cannot chose clothing that looks best on him/her.  This can significantly reduce the self esteem of that person.\n4) Uniforms do not reduce the overall cost of clothing for the parent, because the student is going to want "real" cloths to wear as soon as they get home from school.  So the cost to the parent actually increases because they must buy both sets of cloths.\n5) Uniforms do not make everyone equal.  Uniforms or not, the rich kids will always be able to "accessorize" in order to distinguish their financial status from the others.\n\nTopic 2\nNot exactly sure what they mean by "foster new damage" - what kind of damage?  But here is my take on it\nPro (means you are arguing that Electronic Devices do Foster New Damage)\n1) When you use something like a computer or calculator, you don't learn the real thing (i.e. you don't need to know math in order to get a correct answer with a calculator, you don't need to know how to spell because the computer corrects it).\n2) Computers get faster and faster, but humans can only work so fast.  This is causing work environments that have unrealistic assumptions about how much productivity can be accomplished in a specific amount of time.  Worker dissatisfaction and burn-out is at an all time high.\n3) Over use of electronic devices creates adults with less social skills.  When kids do all of their communicating via texting, paging, or email they don't learn the "art" of conversation with a real person.  This also causes them problems later in working environments that require "team work" because they never learned how to relate to other people - especially those who can be difficult.\n4) Over use of electronic devices has created a whole new set of medical problems.  RMI - repetitive motion injuries such as Carpal Tunnel did not exist until the advent of the computer.  Also more issues such as lower back problems due to sitting at a computer all day in a bad chair, or vitamin D deficiency caused by spending all hours indoors in artificial environments and not getting to see the sun.  A new one is being called "irritable desk syndrome" - look it up, I'm not kidding\n5) Electronic devices have become a "leash" which we cannot get away from work, or home.  It used to be that once you left work, you stopped wor
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Cant say there are many positives if any! But negatives are that people are put into boxes and then repressed so they can not break out of them, causing negative thoughts and feelings in the individual and if they do manage to be noticed as doing things out of character (so everyone else thinks) everyone else gets upset as they expect certain things and reactions.
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Wow i love how everyone associates hazing with only greek life!!! THAT IS THE BIGGEST LIE IN THE WORLD!!!! I attend a university and I am a member in a fraternity as well as a varsity sport. I will tell you that hazing and initiations are much much worst on sports teams than any nationally acredited greek house.  The nation board severely punishes greek houses for hazing where as there is no punishment for a universities sports teams....\n\nI am on the greek life board at my university and I know about every single thing that happens in most greek houses and I'll tell you it's nothing like what i had to do for my varsity sport of i have heard other sports had todo!!!!\n\nPlease do not assume that ALL fraternities or sororities haze cause the majority does not and you have no knowlegde of anything myth you are letting slip out of your mouth.
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As a member of a predominately Greek Letter Sorority I haven't heard anything or read anything to this effect. I do know that hazing provokes lawsuits and increases liability for all the Divine Nine organizations.
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At first, one might want to say that cliques are not good, because it can teache one to be snobbish, but there has been studies where teenagers were surveyed.  The teens who were parts of groups and cliques displayed greated self-confidence, achieved more in life, were more emotional stable, and actually felt more happy (extroverted) than those who were less socially active in a group...so cliques and groups do not have to be bad.. if you want to join a group, however, look for quality of character at the same time and you will do well.