Comment Re: This is what evil looks like - OH PLEASE (Score 1) 243
I believe you're a lawyer insofar as you didn't address what you're pretending to address and are sympathetic to the wealthy and powerful. The fact remains that damages can be rationally and provably assessed, as in the given example of a specific process causing net loss. I expect that in court the oil companies will have someone similarly diatribe about oil not being evil, or some other non sequitur that injects moral ambiguity into a straightforward matter. Or pretend that meaningful regulation is an existential threat to an industry you are simultaneously describing as inevitable.