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scoofytoday at 6:28 PM1 replyview on HN

The secondary market isn’t where morally dubious choices get made.

There is a huge difference between funding oil extraction that is happening anyway, and funding a company to start extracting oil.

However, this is the intersection of consequentialism, deontology, and virtue theory.


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lefratoday at 7:48 PM

Both are asking for money to extract oil (and hopefully sell it for more money). I don't see why the oil well being already drilled or not should make a difference if I don't want to invest in CO2-producing endeavours.

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