creditor

If the creditor is a bank, they're also creating money when they loan it out.

Somehow, a creditor is deemed morally superior to the debtor.

It doesn't matter what the family court orders (this spouse will pay that debt, etc), because that won't change the underlying obligation as far as the creditor is concerned.

Sometimes the creditor must share some of the pain, in order to save (even himself) more pain down the line.

I don't think any of Greece's creditor nations are willing to start a shooting war over a default.

This is why the creditor countries are getting so frustrated negotiating with Greece.

The poor/creditor are lazy and corrupt and their woes are all their fault (pay no attention to the Bugatti driving banker behind the curtain).

No creditor = no need to worry about whether we want to pile more debt.

I doubt a single creditor would accept exchanging EUR denominated debts to New Drachme.

Switzerland is in fact a net international creditor.

If you're just a creditor you would almost certainly be unable to get a judgement against the individual unless he did something stupid like spend corporate money on personal items.

A political program has to be something that voters could at least potentially believe, and international negotiations therefore cannot stray too far from common-sense morality, including when it comes to creditor-debtor relations.

The reason the money went back to the creditor country is that the interest payments were due and they did this to "kick the can" down the road on how sustainable those payments were.