<p>I just don’t get it. I’m not saying that taking 100k+ is not common. I’m just saying that if everyone jumped off of the bridge and died, it wouldn’t make jumping off of the bridge to your death ok. Likewise, if a lot of people take out 100k+ in loans to go to law school, as you guys have argued, it does not make taking 100K+ for law school ok. To complain about law firms not molding their practices because you might have 100k+ in debt is absurd. The only reason I would take out 100k in loans for law school is if I KNEW that I would do very well and would end up with a job to pay it off. Otherwise, no thank you. I’ll go to a decent law school without the debt, do very well and build up from there.</p>
<p>These arguments remind me of the ones I heard in the recent recession. All those people who took out loans without being sure if they could repay them in the future ended up not being able to repay them and their belongings (i.e. house) were taken away. Then they had the nerve to say, “I could not pay it back so I should be helped out.” I’m not saying that everyone did this but it was the gist of the recession.</p>
<p>I mean no disrespect, but here in America there is way too much of a sense of entitlement. All those people demanding that something be done because they made poor fiscal decisions thought that they were entitled to live the lives they had. The sad part is that a lot of people who lost their house and such got it back or at least got back on their feet but God forbid we now take a bit of money from the people that got back on their feet to feed and cloth the homeless who NEVER HAD ANYTHING TO BEGIN WITH. </p>
<p>BOTTOM LINE: If you can’t pay for law school, you CANNOT go to that law school. No ifs, ands, or buts. You DO NOT have the money to go to that law school. It’s as simple as that. Go to the one you can afford.</p>