If an organisation is serious about building mental fortitude, one of the worst (and ineffective to the point of being counter-productive) ways to do that is to let bullies and weak-willed followers freestyle brutalise people.
It doesn't make people stronger. It doesn't create mental fortitude. It just selects for people who will enjoy or put up with that kind of bullshit.
Nobody teaches marksmanship by giving untrained recruits a big box of ammo and seeing who hits the target. Nobody teaches fieldcraft by just releasing untrained people without equipment into the woods and seeing which of them don't starve or die of exposure. Why the hell would anyone try to instill mental fortitude (which is so vitally important in times of stress) through such an incompetent, cack-handed and damaging way? They wouldn't. They're just looking for an excuse to look the other way.
It doesn't make people stronger. It doesn't create mental fortitude. It just selects for people who will enjoy or put up with that kind of bullshit.
Nobody teaches marksmanship by giving untrained recruits a big box of ammo and seeing who hits the target. Nobody teaches fieldcraft by just releasing untrained people without equipment into the woods and seeing which of them don't starve or die of exposure. Why the hell would anyone try to instill mental fortitude (which is so vitally important in times of stress) through such an incompetent, cack-handed and damaging way? They wouldn't. They're just looking for an excuse to look the other way.