Where does the thin line stand?

At yeepei.com, a question was raised.

"Why do you want to continue with this vicious cycle???"

First things first, what the cycle is.

As a junior you get ragged. When you become a senior, you rag juniors. Said juniors becomes senior and rag new juniors. The self-sustaining cycle of doom that apparently has been broken and set anew by the proud M2s.

The Chinese, or at least a majority of them, enjoy eating the innards of certain animals. The rest of the world stare in disbelief and wonder aloud,"How in the world can anyone consume such immensely disgusting food?".
Some people in the world eat good healthy live bugs. The same Chinese people who ate those intenstines wonder,"HOw can they eat that beetle? YUcks."

Weirdness is a measure of variance.

See it in another light. Certain students enjoy giving out a good old strict ragging. Some do not. So imagine the Chinese people tutoring that insect eating tribe to stop eating bugs because it's just wrong and disgusting.

Who's right in this case? No one is. In terms of culinary options, both sets of people can do whatever they want. But if that Chinese man speaks out and start doing monkey faces at the insect-eating tribe whilst claiming that his own people are superior just because they do not eat bugs, then regardless of who eats what, he is wrong.

This goes out to all the M1s who think that M2s are too tame and for M2s who think that M1s are just violent and horny.

IF you believe in setting a new tradition then why do you question people who wish to maintain theirs?

And of course in this controversial argument, it all boils down to one main bottom line however and in whatever possible way you started it.

Bullying people and forcing them to do embarrassing acts that deface their pride and name is just wrong.

In a way that makes sense because however cute that analogy above was, eating bugs is not the same as... say killing babies. If there existed a tribe that killed babies, I'm pretty sure the Chinese, Indian, or Mohican will step out and set something right.

But yet again we must remember that we're not killing babies here. WE're simply having a week of good laughs by ragging. Admittedly, there does exist a point where ragging becomes unbearable to behold in terms of human ethics. Therefore, where thus exist the line'th that must be drawe'th?

Which ultimately leads us back to one question. When is it too much? And that, in my very humble yet farsighted opinion, is where you handle the problem. And not by setting new "traditions" that is what, made to belittle generations of medical students before you?

It would be like the new-age Chinese teenagers starting to abandon and discriminate their old traditions just because... they feel that American culture is just too cool a thing not to adopt.

But of course, pardon the nettle. No one's angry about anything. Words will always remain as that. In fact, here at cmingo.blogspot.com, we wish to say kudos for successfully going out there and setting to work out on what you believe in as right. And perhaps that itself could speak for almost everything else.

But again, there will be ownage ragging going about, and I for one... am a sadist.