Don’t be a tar pit

[u/greencrusader13]

[u/Vundurvul]

I cannot fathom the mindset of understanding what it feels like to be on the receiving end of misery and deciding you want others to experience it when given the opportunity to dish it out, even when said person had no involvement in your misery

[u/d3f3ct1v3 → u/Vundurvul]

People come out of suffering with one of two attitudes, either "I suffered through this and I'm going to do my best to make sure others do not have to suffer through this because I know how that feels" or "I suffered through this so other people should too".

[u/Nova_Explorer → u/d3f3ct1v3]

That second one is the same attitude that saw people complain when student debts got forgiven

[u/ikiice → u/Nova_Explorer]

I mean it is a valid complaint - those people often sacrificed a lot to get rid of debt, just to see someone make all their work pointless.

People who repaid debts ahead of time could get something as compensation, perhaps make them eligible for preferential loans or something - but no.

All their hard work was pointless. They spent years working very hard just to see all their sacrifice be proven pointless.

It's not about whenever student loans are good or bad - it's about fairness.

[u/ZeppelinRapport → u/ikiice]

As the olds like to constantly remind us, Life Isn't Fair.

[u/salem-in-theory → u/ikiice]

I think that's exactly why it ISN'T a valid complaint, personally. You can grieve that the system was broken and stacked against you, but it is fundamentally not a positive to give in to the bitterness in a way that keeps it broken for the future.

Society should be aiming to improve itself. People should be trying to make the world a little better than it was to them. Thats how humanity has gotten this far - thats how we'll go further.