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Why do you want the court to honor the contract? (Which is a bit euphemistic, to my mind: it means to use organized violence or the threat of it to extract value from someone.)

Maybe it'd make sense in a totally anonymous world, but why not just do business with people or entities you can trust? Think web of trust. That's what consumers and businesses de facto do nowadays anyway.

You could still issue debt; it's just you can't expect to have violence to back it up. Past decisions and alignment of lender and borrower self-interest determine the likelihood of it being paid back.



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