Depends who the debt is to. Loan sharks and bookies are scam artists. Beat them any way you can. Use the same legal system they'll use when they're in a corner.
And what happens when you owe the government money that you can't pay? Seize your assets, garnish wages, remove money from your bank accounts. You're making every bookie out to be the devil.
An illegal bookie or loan shark doesn't have that kind of leverage. In times of desperation, survival is the game. Ask any bookie or loan shark that gives people up to save his own ass.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
