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Is canceling student loan debt considered stealing? (discuss.online)

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I have an economics teacher that made this claim in class yesterday. I wanted to know other people’s thoughts about it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Property has existed before laws existed to enforce it. It was enforced with violence. Stealing is still stealing even if there's no law against it.

[–] rational_lib 2 points 3 days ago

And if there was a disagreement about whose property was who's? With no laws to settle it, it would just be determined by who grabs said property and runs off with it first. That's indistinguishable from a free-for-all.