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It's implausible that if Exxon published its research, customers would have filled up at Chevron instead, yes. It is totally plausible that the global oil / fo
by geofft 7y ago
It's implausible that if Exxon published its research, customers would have filled up at Chevron instead, yes.
It is totally plausible that the global oil / fossil fuel market would have not been as big as it is now, that efforts (from government or from private entities) to find less-polluting alternatives would have been more popular, etc.
- beerandt 7y agoBut that still doesn't establish an injury to shareholders.
- fennecfoxen 7y agoWho needs to establish any injury to shareholders? That company is bad! Would you give evil the benefit of the law? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBiLT3LASk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBiLT3LASk
- catalogia 7y ago> Would you give evil the benefit of the law? When you disrespect the law, you risk devaluing a powerful tool against evil (and one of the few tools against evil that's actually discriminating, one of the few tools to actually make a good faith attempt to distinguish guilt from innocence.)
- fennecfoxen 7y agoRobert Bolt's rendition of the sentiment was more dramatic