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Why are we not going to--
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Even though it's better for everybody for it not to go under,
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why are we not going to bail them out?
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Because it undermines the incentives
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for them not to make bad loans to start with.
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To a lesser extent you're going to hear that on the debtor side as well.
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You're going to hear some people say we shouldn't be bailing out people
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who took on bad loans, took on bad mortgages to finance their houses,
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again for bail out reasons.
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So this is an important trade off.
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If you go on to law school
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you're going to see a lot about this kind of discussion,