Look I’m not being high and mighty here. I’ve had no money. Lived in dangerous neighborhoods where PD drags people out in the night, my car is broken into multiple times, women mugged outside my window and the bastard is gone before I can get there, no heat in the middle of a northern winter. I get it.
For most of my life I’ve been an employee. Then I went out on my own. For the past x years I’ve signed the front of the paycheck and not just the back. It puts a whole new perspective on things.
We should all strive to act morally. If we don’t then the whole system falls apart.
Evaluate your circumstances and determine what you can pay, no matter how “small”, and pay it.
It’s good to see most FReepers do perceive this tactic as theft. Failing to pay one’s debtors is in fact stealing, and is contrary to Ps 37:21 “The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give generously...”.