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Re: Are you morally obligated to repay a loan that you take?
For some folks who feel emotional discomfort at fuzzy categories, the attempt to turn things into a black/white scenario is natural. The problem is that in most situations you will have a lot of edge cases. The difference between black and white is often rainbow, not grey in other words.
But the point is, people do have emotional limitations when it comes to categorization and it affects their moral processing.
Papa Bull is trying to turn this into a simple question. The original issue was about people who took out loans on houses before the collapse, then found themselves underwater, and who then walked away from the loans. He said the idea was from a "typical liberal professor" (I'm not even sure if the guy was liberal but whatever), and that the borrowers who did so were "contemptible". I questioned whether he believed that from a business/free market perspective.
This is his attempt to simplify the issue into black/white, moral/immoral terms.
For some folks who feel emotional discomfort at fuzzy categories, the attempt to turn things into a black/white scenario is natural. The problem is that in most situations you will have a lot of edge cases. The difference between black and white is often rainbow, not grey in other words.
But the point is, people do have emotional limitations when it comes to categorization and it affects their moral processing.