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Originally Posted by tony404
The guy is going thru a bad time,what does beating on him accomplish? A FYI to all if you decide to lend someone money, say in your mind I will never see it again.If you cant live with that dont lend money out.
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If I questioned whether or not I'd get it back, I WOULDN'T loan the money. I don't think most people would. I don't think that's the point. What you're suggesting is not the spirit in which money is usually loaned. If someone asked me to LOAN them money for a week, I think it's natural to assume that in a week, you'll get your money back. If someone asked me to GIVE them money, then yeah, I wouldn't expect it back.
Perhaps if you can't AFFORD to live without that money just in CASE you don't get it back by a specific date you shouldn't loan it out, but helping someone out with a loan shouldn't be taken as outright charity. People seem to forget that it's the person LOANING the money that's doing the favour...not the person paying it back on time.
edit-with a select few people, if they asked to borrow a certain amount of money, I might even just give them the money and say don't worry about paying it back, make me some galleries when you have some time or something. But with others, a loan is a loan I'd expect to be paid back on time.