"What we have created is sensitive and well considered, not a gratuitous exploitation of suffering purely for the purposes of amusement," he told me.
Such cynical exploitation of suffering is nothing short of grotesque.
Bond's play is a guilt-ridden indictment of all poets and dramatists, himself included, for their exploitation of suffering and cruelty.
Educated at a Scottish missionary school and expelled from a friend's wedding in his teens for being lower-caste, he began to see caste as an "an engine of suffering and exploitation".
Those that survive suffer other consequences: malnutrition leading to stunting and disability, a lack of access to health care and education, and an increased risk of suffering from exploitation, violence and HIV/AIDS.
Schindler's List, by contrast, showed everything – random murders, the inevitability of the gas chamber, the totality of suffering – but opened itself to accusations of exploitation and, worse, of selling false hope where hope had no business to be found.
Many repeat victims have long histories of suffering multiple types of crimes, such as sexual exploitation, abuse or community violence.
§ Exploitation: Children on the streets are not only at greater risk of suffering violence and abuse, they are also often too easily lured into gangs, and exploited by adults for sex work and drug peddling.
Stopping of suffering and hankering.
Social care minister Phil Hope said at a conference last week that his wife phoned him after the first programme to ask: "And what are you going to do about it?" But exploitation of private suffering does positive harm.
But the scandal involving the French charity, Zoé's Ark, is tangled in an even more complicated web, a modern one of apparently good intentions gone awry and of the perceived exploitation of the suffering of vulnerable people, and a profound cultural misunderstanding.
