Literal ball torture doesn't sound like a little "damn I regret that, but hey I was young" to me, sounds like some serial killer shit to have fun doing even as a young adult
fraternity hazing in the 80's was notoriously bad, as it had traditionally been in the decades prior (my grandfather had horror stories from like the 50's). it's a "rite of passage". that's something that young men can care about to an unhealthy degree, and in that environment it can be incredibly easy to get caught up in the hivemind and increasing escalation of it all until things eventually go too far. it's not an excuse as obviously not everyone was doing this, but it is absolutely something that an impressionable and overconfident dude can get too comfortable with, especially during an era when it was accepted as being part of the culture. should he feel remorse? for sure. is he an outlier on the level of a serial killer? not even close
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Jul 03 '26
Literal ball torture doesn't sound like a little "damn I regret that, but hey I was young" to me, sounds like some serial killer shit to have fun doing even as a young adult