HAZING AND YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
When you choose to act in a manner that is hurtful or harmful to others, how do you change the effects of what you have done? Many times people are caught up in the actions of someone else and use the excuse "so and so was doing it". Does that make it right? Do you stop to think of what this action that "so and so" is doing will have on your future?
Especially today in the e-world, things are posted to the Internet faster than you can blink an eye and it is really difficult to "take it back".
Second Chance Solutions asks that you stop to think of what you are about to do, not only to the person or people being hazed, but also on the repercussions to your future. Head-hunters (job recruiters) scour the Internet for information about their prospective employees. Is this the type of behavior you want them so find you involved in? Is this the type of behavior you want your Mother and Father, as well as your siblings and extended family to know you are involved in?
The Golden Rule states we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us. Sometimes acts of hazing are just fun, embarrassing acts. Sometimes they start out with that intent and escalate. Regardless, think of your fellow human and put yourself in their place. People will oftentimes use a group of people to justify their own illegal or immoral actions. You are ultimately responsible for your own actions, not your mother or father, not your teachers or principal, not even your peers, YOU and YOU Alone.
THINK before you ACT.
This is a Socially Responsible Message from Second Chance Solutions to YOU.
By Karen Boggs
