> The damage in a case like this would be calculated on how many peoples opinions of de Grey were lowered. If you didn't have a prior opinion of the guy becaus

> The damage in a case like this would be calculated on how many peoples opinions of de Grey were lowered. If you didn't have a prior opinion of the guy because you'd never heard of him before -- like me (unless I'd heard of him but forgot) -- your (my) opinion of him technically can't be "lowered". But getting to hear of him for the first time in a context like this certainly gives one a bad first impression of him... So, does that count? Because in that case I suppose there could be quite a lot of opinions like mine, not lowered but set initially low, out there affected by this.