[jackmott42]

The point isn't to undo the past, it is to make it clear to other companies that if they lie about safety they will face an existential threat too.

Who are you people who feel compelled to defend mega corporations that screw people over? What is your psychology? What do you value in life? My goodness.

[RajT88]

> The point isn't to undo the past, it is to make it clear to other companies that if they lie about safety they will face an existential threat too.

DuPont, while removed from the threat of this lawsuit, is guilty on plenty of counts of the same behavior with other chemicals.

I believe I've read articles about GE and Monsanto also knowing the health risks to their own employees and doing nothing about it. Let alone the dumping into public waterways.

$143 billion is hopefully the judgement which is levied, and hopefully the first of many.

[red-iron-pine]

> this lawsuit

There can and will be others. Esp. if there is a legal precedent.

[mrguyorama]

There are millions of people all over the earth that genuinely believe "might makes right", or "greed is good", or "capitalism inherently results in meritocratic and technocratic allocation of resources so nothing that happens under capitalism can possibly be bad".

That's not even the least liberal worldviews widely held. Love thy neighbor and the golden rule and accountability are not universal

[njanirudh]

I would say that billions of people believe that "might makes right".

Its been seen across the centuries and countries alike. Colonialism, MegaCorps, Hague Invasion Act and countless examples that prove that morals matter very less in the long run.