[DIGEST] Would it be so bad if the world owed us something?

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Hi friends,

I grew up believing the world owed us nothing, but the older I get the more I think that’s not true. The universe might not give us anything, but being given and being owed are two different things. I have friends who have owed me money for years but have never given it back to me.

Lack of repayment even after decades does not cancel out those debts. We are not the federal student loan program, which can be luffed off until the debt washes away after 20-25 years. We can forgive that debt if we so choose, but we are not required to forgive it by any means. I know plenty of old people still bitter at long-dead friends for slights they committed 50+ years ago.

I try to be more enlightened than that, but at the end of the day, I am (and we all are) little more than a 6-lb blobo of fat that somehow grew sentience between the ears of a meat robot they have no idea how to operate. My blobo has been randomly pushing buttons for decades to understand how to operate the body it was …