Teachers and nurses provide a public service that is in demand. As incentive to promote these harbingers of public good there are grounds to support loan forgiveness. Pilots are martyrs on a personal vision quest. Their sacrifice makes it so that the public can fly over the weekend to visit a girlfriend on a whim and pay next to nothing for the service. As such it is not a benevolent sacrifice for the public good and should not be forgiven.

In fact financial destruction due to making foolish self centered career choices should stand as example to succeeding generations. Therefore the best outcome is that the ruined pilot can serve as a cautionary tale of the consequences of making a poor choice.

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