Quote from Anaconda:
I'll try to put it to you this way. Most people with heavy CC debt have a choice now. Default now or default in the future when food prices shoot up so high they won't have anything left to spend after buying barely enough food to sustain themselves & their families. While you would suggest they pay the CCs and pretty much guarantee starvation in the future, I would say, screw the CCs, put that cash toward your family's well-being, because it's getting there. The whole consumer debt system is going to crash regardless.
of course if put this way there is no choice but to do what must be done. I don't think the OP is in this situation. He is just defaulting because he can.....

