%0 Journal Article
%T Exploiting disadvantage as causing harm
%A R.J. Lel
%A Siba Harb
%J Ethics & Global Politics
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.1080/16544951.2019.1565610
%X ABSTRACT In Responding to Global Poverty, Christian Barry and Gerhard £¿£¿verland 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 £¿verland 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 £¿verland¡¯s arguments suggest
%U https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16544951.2019.1565610