I would agree with you, except that people who sell debt at these crazy low rates are doing so because the person with delinquent debt is so destitute they've given up trying to collect. They sell to people who will go to every single length allowed by the law to harass people with absolutely nothing to their name until they squeeze the last bit of water from the stone of poverty.
This debt doesn't come from people like you and me. They come from people who literally don't understand what debt is and have been fooled into a life of poverty. That's who's being targeted here.
Removing the ability to effectively service non-performing debt would simply drive up the cost of borrowing for people that need it. Debt collectors are a necessary evil...
> This debt doesn't come from people like you and me. They come from people who literally don't understand what debt is and have been fooled into a life of poverty. That's who's being targeted here.
Exactly - the problem isn't debt collectors, its predatory lending.
If you say you'll pay a debt, you should pay it. A necessary and IMO objectively good consequence of that is if you try to shirk that responsibility, someone somewhere is going to try to find you and try to collect. That doesn't by definition make anyone (including the person with delinquent debt) a bad person.