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Ethics and Fraternity Hazing

Cris Anthony Mendez, a 20-year-old student, died from injuries sustained during a fraternity hazing ritual. None of the fraternity members present that night came forward with information about what happened. The fraternity leaders denounced Cris's death but the members who were with him avoided cooperating with authorities. The case remains unsolved. This raises questions about the value of life, the wrongs committed against Cris, and whether there is any good to fraternities at all from an ethics perspective.

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Ethics and Fraternity Hazing

Cris Anthony Mendez, a 20-year-old student, died from injuries sustained during a fraternity hazing ritual. None of the fraternity members present that night came forward with information about what happened. The fraternity leaders denounced Cris's death but the members who were with him avoided cooperating with authorities. The case remains unsolved. This raises questions about the value of life, the wrongs committed against Cris, and whether there is any good to fraternities at all from an ethics perspective.

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What is GOOD?
 In August 2007, newspaper reported what seemed to be yet another sad incident of fraternity
violence. Cris Anthony Mendez, a twenty-year-old student of the University of the Philippines
(UP), was rushed to the hospital in the early morning hours, unconscious, with large bruises on
his chest, back, and legs. He passed away that morning, and the subsequent autopsy report
strongly suggests that his physical injuries were most probably the result of “Hazing” (the term
colloquially used to refer to initiation rites in which neophytes may be subjected to various forms
of physical abuse). What exactly happened remains an open question, as none of those who were
with him that night came forward to shed light on what had transpired. Needless to say, none of

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them came forward to assume responsibility for the death of Cris.

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 Even as the leaders of the Sigma Rho fraternity publicly denounced the death of Cris, those

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members of theirs who had been with him that night vanished, avoiding and refusing to cooperate

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with legal authorities. Meanwhile, UP students and the general public clamored for justice. In a

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move that surprised the student body, the UP chancellor called on all fraternities to justify their
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continued existence. Meanwhile, the case of the tragic death of Cris Anthony Mendez was left
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unresolved. It remains that way up to this day.
 No one knows just what exactly happened. No charges have been filed, no definitive testimony
has been forthcoming. But there is more to this for us than just a criminal mystery. Pondering on
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the death of Cris, we may find ourselves asking questions such as, “What is the value of one’s
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life?” “What exactly were the wrongs done to Cris by his so-called fraternity brother?” or perhaps
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even “Is there any good to fraternities?” These questions that concern good and bad, or right and
wrong—and these are questions concerning value—are the kind of questions that we deal with in
ethics.
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Reflect and answer the following questions:


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1. What is the value of life?


 The value of life is more than worth of a million. Life is precious than the diamonds and we tend
to take advantage and also forgotten that we have limitations.
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2. If you are a member of this fraternity, what will you do?


 I will quit and make a report about the violent treatment in the fraternity so that they will accept
consequences in their actions.
3. Based on the given story, what is the concept of morality that this fraternity advocates?

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 The group was uncooperative and abusive to their powers and unluckily led to death of their
members, they advocate and violated the social and individual morality (moral hazard).

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