Hazing: a Necessity (a Position Paper on Hazing in Police/Military Academies in the Philippines)

1440 Words6 Pages
HAZING: A Necessity (A Position Paper on Hazing in Police/Military Academies in the Philippines) Many incidents had already been reported regarding cases of hazing in the Philippines. These hazing scenarios started to occupy the lime lights when news about hazing-caused deaths erupted. The American University (2012) defined hazing as “an intentional action taken toward any student during the rushing, induction, pledging, initiation, or membership process … which produces public humiliation, physical or emotional discomfort, bodily injury or public ridicule….” Organizations usually employ this activity as one of the ways of acquiring membership. Athletic organizations, fraternities and sororities, student organizations and military organizations commonly perform hazing. In student organizations, fraternities, and sororities, hazing was and is never viewed in a good light. Such activity is always condemned as people argue that it can be dangerous and can cause a lot of harm to the people being hazed. Hazing certainly happens in military and police trainings in the Philippines. In military organizations, however, it is a different case. Hazing in police and military academies must not be condemned as it is necessary in military formation. Initially, let us define necessary characters. For this matter, let us call the people doing the hazing, who are usually the resident members and the officers of the military organization, the “trainers”. The person for whom the hazing is being done will be called the “trainee”. Hazing is done intentionally and with consent. In this sense, it must be understood that the trainee has his consent to undergo a hazing ritual. It is general knowledge that hazing is considered an inevitable part of military trainings; thus, it is implied that the trainees have the information that in some point of their stay in the academy, they

More about Hazing: a Necessity (a Position Paper on Hazing in Police/Military Academies in the Philippines)

Open Document