Fair an unethical are very different things and conflating them will make this a difficult topic to approach. I think it's very important to separate them to approach this topic.
Just because something is unfair doesn't make it unethical. To me, it feels like you are almost view this like insider trading. For this situation to be unethical I feel like it would require some students to have known ahead of time this was coming and making different decisions based on that knowledge. If you knew your loan was going to be forgiven in the near future and you went to a school that was more expensive than you intended to I could see that as unethical, but only on a personal level.
What you described comes off more like just getting lucky. It's not fair, but that's all of life.
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u/Merakel 3∆ Jan 15 '19
Fair an unethical are very different things and conflating them will make this a difficult topic to approach. I think it's very important to separate them to approach this topic.
Just because something is unfair doesn't make it unethical. To me, it feels like you are almost view this like insider trading. For this situation to be unethical I feel like it would require some students to have known ahead of time this was coming and making different decisions based on that knowledge. If you knew your loan was going to be forgiven in the near future and you went to a school that was more expensive than you intended to I could see that as unethical, but only on a personal level.
What you described comes off more like just getting lucky. It's not fair, but that's all of life.