So recently there have been many stories of the games in NUS camps being increasingly sexualised. The thing is, no one actually forced anyone to do anything they do not want to do. Who can the students blame or do they need a lesson on making choices?
Many a times, we blame others for the things we do because we “have no choice”. Truth is, we always have a choice. Just because we do not like the other choices, does not make it disappear. In the case above, no one put a gun to their heads to participate (in which case, they also had a choice to either participate or be shot). It is most often their fear of being alienated or outcast from the group that led them to participate in the games. While the initial intention was to make friends during the camp, they could have just left ...
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Your rationalisation is flawed. First, the example you give, of someone spent his money in a restaurant and the other, participating in NUS orientation are two entirely different. One is of his own volition, the other is ‘encouraged’ or ordered by a higher authority as part of its initiation programme.