Reply #22: "Unashamed" is one thing; proud of stiffing a creditor is another

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If he had just said that he was not ashamed of it and that it was his last resort, that would have been one thing. He could have even turned it around and gotten some deserved sympathy for being sandbagged with a question like that.

To stand there and be proud of sticking his creditors with the bill is disgusting. A person who feels free to decide which agreements he abides by and which he doesn't is not worthy of ANYBODY'S trust. How do you know that YOU won't be the person who doesn't deserve to have an agreement honored?

Nobody's paying me anything for this; I do it because of a respect for the covenant of society: to live up to one's word as best one can.

As for why I bothered with this even though he's basically a gadfly, I thought I made that clear enough. Since I didn't, it's like this: are we as a group of allegedly somewhat like-minded people to collectively give this a pass without at least some mention of it? It's gleefully selfish, dishonorable, reckless to the very foundation of our economic coexistence and just plain disgusting. I would like some of us to go on record--as at least some have here--that this is not what we are about. It is VERY alarming how many people here have already stated on this thread that it was just fine to skip out on the tab; credit card companies all deserve it anyway.

Yes, credit card companies are out of line. Rates are predatory, charges are misleading, all sorts of things like this happen and politicians are greased with contributions to look the other way. Whatever happened to usury laws? Still, to revel in one's fucking over of financial institutions is deplorable and for us to not call it out as what it is is tantamount to endorsing it. That's the point. It does matter. Even if he's the cranky old uncle, he's still part of the family and the family needs to speak.