Exploitation and effective altruism

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چکیده

How could it be wrong to exploit – say, by paying sweatshop wages if the exploited party benefits? do something gratuitously bad like giving a wasteful charity that is better than permissibly doing nothing? Joe Horton argues these puzzles, known as Exploitation Problem and All or Nothing Problem, have no unified answer. I propose one pose challenge for Horton’s take on Problem.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Politics, Philosophy & Economics

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1470-594X', '1741-3060']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594x21994495