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by socialdemocrat 2330 days ago
If we are to believe the article, Chevron was on a vendetta against him, spending huge amounts of money to destroy him. Paying people to dig dirt. Surely you must see the immorality of this?

I mean we are not asked to believe anything crazy here. A company made enormous environmental damage. Is that premise hard to believe? Next they refused to pay or invent excuses? Again nothing odd about that.

Some lawyer takes up the case and wins. Again nothing out of the ordinary. The company fights him tooth and nail. Nothing weird thus far.

What is novel is really just the extent to which they have gone to smear him and destroy him. That they are motivated to do this is not strange at all.

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If they honestly believe the guy created a fraudulent scheme to steal billions of dollars from them, no, it doesn’t seem particularly immoral to spend millions making sure he gets in trouble for it.
> If we are to believe the article, Chevron was on a vendetta against him, spending huge amounts of money to destroy him. Paying people to dig dirt. Surely you must see the immorality of this?

Absolutely nothing immoral about that. Having been wronged, Chevron is morally entitled to do absolutely anything short of illegality against this creep.