Exploiting disadvantage as causing harm

Ethics & Global Politics

Siba Harb¹  R.J. Leland² 

[1] KU Leuven;University of Manitoba;

关键词: Global Justice;    Assistance-based responsibility;    Harm;    exploitation;    poverty;   

DOI  :  10.1080/16544951.2019.1565610

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In Responding to Global Poverty, Christian Barry and Gerhard Øverland argue that, while exploitation is morally problematic, responsibilities not to exploit are characteristically less stringent than responsibilities not to harm. They even suggest that exploiters’ responsibilities to assist the exploited may be weaker than the responsibilities of culpable bystanders who are able to help the poor but fail to do so We think Barry and Øverland underestimate the prospects of the exploitation argument. In our paper, we suggest that exploitation can plausibly be understood as a kind of harm. If exploitation harms, then it requires special justification and can generate stringent responsibilities not to exploit that have a different ground than those generated by morally culpable failures to assist. This suggests an important way to rehabilitate arguments for poverty relief on the basis of a duty not to harm, and that there is more interesting territory to explore than Barry and Øverland’s arguments suggest.

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