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jaley
Registered: Feb 2009
Posts: 59 |
04-22-12 10:05 PM
Debtor's prisons prey on basic human instinct of one group, while benefiting the carnal desires of another group. There will always be many people that will fall prey to greed over logic. The lender is also being greedy, looking to make a profit off money with no risk. The most logical solution is to not give something away if you don't want to risk losing it.
This is really what Christianity is about. The old, barbaric, "eye for an eye" vs. intelligence, compassion, and trying to help mankind overcome their problems. Unfortunately, many people today have been taught that the Bible is a literal history book where God is going to come and save them, instead being taught as a work of spirituality/philosophy. Ancient peoples were just as intelligent as we are today, and some of them are regarded as the most brilliant philosophers in we know.
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piezoe
Registered: Jan 2006
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04-23-12 12:11 AM
Quote from Spiker:
Oldtime. . . . will they imprison me when the US defaults on its loan obligations , even though i dont owe anyone any money ? If not , who will they imprison ?
Please take me fishing with you. .
The U.S. can never default on its loan obligations. It can always pay, but perhaps with worthless money.
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PARACLESE
Registered: Dec 2006
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04-23-12 07:35 PM
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They're not "working for free", they're "working to pay back what they owe".
Last I checked, the history books didn't mention that slaves had borrowed any money from the masters for whom they toiled and thus hadn't incurred any obligations to their masters. This woman did. So, unless you have some super-secret history book which states otherwise, your moralistic diatribe comparing her situation to slavery is completely irrelevant.
I've noticed lately that a lot of people "know" things I don't know. That the things they "know" happen to be completely false doesn't seem to stop them from claiming to "know" them. Odd, but I put up with it because it seems to be endemic to the times and I don't get paid to correct every mistaken notion that crops up in some fool's head.
I guess youve never heard of a serf, huh, logic-man
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logic_man
Registered: Oct 2010
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04-23-12 07:56 PM
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I guess youve never heard of a serf, huh, logic-man
First someone brings up bankruptcy and now you're bringing up serfs?
Hey, the topic is DEADBEAT DEBTORS, OK?
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