June is Torture Awareness Month. It happens throughout the world, carried out by many governments, including our own. We can be shocked by it while still condoning it. Even in fraternity houses, where torture is a right of passage into the brotherhood. (Like with the young man who was put into a cold area, sprayed with cold water, and made to drink gallons of water–to the point of hypothermia.)
It’s obviously against U.S. law and morality to torture people we want to get information out of. Yet the art of torture has been perfected over the decades in places like Guantanamo. Obviously our nation must stop this inhumane practice.
We can still get what we want, though. Just send prisoners to college and make them rush a fraternity. The fraternity hazing process will achieve our government’s ends but not really be torture. After all, unlike torture, hazing is all in good fun. And if it goes a tad too far, well, we all know that boys will be boys. Or so the thinking goes.
We can still get what we want, though. Just send prisoners to college and make them rush a fraternity. The fraternity hazing process will achieve our government’s ends but not really be torture. After all, unlike torture, hazing is all in good fun. And if it goes a tad too far, well, we all know that boys will be boys. Or so the thinking goes.
Torture is torture. It’s wrong, immoral, cruel, not a game, and yields no good.