[derekp7]

That is something I just really don't get. It is like being against the Polio vaccine simply because "I had gotten polio just before the vaccine came out, so if I had to suffer everyone else should too". I've never heard of anyone being against vaccines due to "fairness".

[majewsky]

The difference is that people didn't choose to get polio. But they chose to go to college knowing that they would get into debt and then dug their way out of the consequences. If the next generation of college-goers would not have to put up with the same crap, that would mean that their own self-inflicted suffering was meaningless. At that point, cognitive dissonance kicks in and people make the illogical argument that "if I had to suffer, they should have to suffer too".