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What? Of course borrowers can be made to repay the debt in traditional finance. Get a loan from your bank, and refuse to pay it back. See what happens. If don't understand the basic mechanisms behind a loan agreement, there's no point in continuing this conversation.

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> Get a loan from your bank, and refuse to pay it back.

I don't even know where to begin when it comes to examples of just that happening. Defaulting on debt is something that happens with every single form of credit. It's extremely fundamental to the idea of debt.

Nobody says defaults don't happen. Defaults happen all the time. When they happen the creditor will initiate legal action against the borrower. If the borrower continues to refuse to pay or is unable to do so, the court will seize the borrower's assets and will liquidate them in order to pay the debt to the extent possible. This is process is impossible to replicate with a "smart contract" because smart contracts lack the ability to seize assets.

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