I think it's horrible too, LT. It's juvenile, often dangerous and always humiliating.
Builds trust and confidence? If I'd been initiated the way many have been, I sure as hell wouldn't trust those who humiliated me in that way. Humiliation breeds confidence?
Hazing is the ultimate manifestation of peer pressure.
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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
Mark Twain
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