Throughout the early stages of our living, we were protected by our parents from harm and cruelty this world restrains. They do this out of love. I just cant comprehend why it is necessary to beat up someone in order to call him your brother.
Fraternity is a brotherhood, and by extension, deep friendship or camaraderie. Sociological explanations on its benefits embrace social shelter. Frat members usually cover up each other as a member of a secret society and defend their brothers whether wrong or right which gives them a feeling of security. Thinking that they would not feel alone anymore inside a big campus like UP, others join hesitantly.
Some of our best politicians are members of this fraternities. But according to Jovito Salonga, former senator who resigned in Sigma Rho Fraternity, brutality was not present during their time. Yet these fraternities do not aid the academic mission of the University.
Such young man with great potentials, a neophyte Chris Anthony Mendez, an alumni in Liceo de San Pablo and a student of UP, died senseless in hazing. Someone who dreamt to be a somebody someday is now a pale corpse in a coffin.
Initiation rites include fatal hazing. Surpassing brutal trials serve as a price for inclusion. There is a conjecture that fraternities alleged to have rituals painless of entry are inane, and bizarre as it is, that the more fatal the hazing is, the stronger the bond of brotherhood.
For a person in a healthy state of mind, violence is completely different from love. How can you say that you love someone by being so insensitive to his or her feelings? If you love them, you make them happy, not crippled.
Emotional security must be in a sense of providing care and support, support not in tribunal warfare and therefore, brotherhood is not revealed through unity when playing with death. Bravery is not measured through struggling pains, but through conquering those recruiters of fraternity and continuing the real battle of life.
