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Re:Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing th... by geofft on Sunday October 27, 2019 @11:35AM (#21370346)
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.

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Re:Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing th... by beerandt on Sunday October 27, 2019 @12:07PM (#21370578)
But that still doesn't establish an injury to shareholders.
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Re:Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing th... by fennecfoxen on Sunday October 27, 2019 @12:21PM (#21370653)
Who 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

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Re:Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing th... by catalogia on Sunday October 27, 2019 @01:11PM (#21370965)
> 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.)

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Re:Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing th... by fennecfoxen on Sunday October 27, 2019 @01:45PM (#21371210)
Robert Bolt's rendition of the sentiment was more dramatic
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