You deserve it because you are effectively lending them your money based on the promise that they will be able to repay it at some point or that you can sell your debt on an open market. If you or other investors have little information on how to evaluate the risk of that debt, then essentially it introduces more risk to you.
Debt and equity are fundamentally different things. Your name is
Schmoe, and you have no business here.
Thats exactly right. Please furuknap do your research before spending all this time talking about irrelavant arguments. See my post above this. Dont buy shares if your not confortable with the risk.