exploitation.
To exploit someone or something is to make use of him, her, or it for your own ends by playing on some weakness or vulnerability in the object of your exploitation. Most dictionaries define ‘exploitation’ as ‘making use of someone or something unjustly or unethically’; but they are wrong. If exploitation is judged unjust or unethical, that is not a matter of definition but is due to positive—and controversial—ethical commitments on the part of those who judge it.... ...
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