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History is littered with cases where might made right, where cynical or exploitative acts led to riches or power, and where the idealistic little guy is crushed by the more pragmatic big guy, less hung up on agonizing over whether something's the right thing to do.
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This is seen, in some corners, as a rather exploitative act.
'Abduction' (PG-13, 1 46) This film is a sloppy, exploitative act of star worship created (if that's the right word for cynical hackwork) around Taylor Lautner, the pouty 19-year-old heartthrob of the "Twilight" franchise.
Directed by John Singleton ("Four Brothers," "2 Fast 2 Furious"), from a screenplay by Shawn Christensen, "Abduction" is a sloppy, exploitative act of star worship created (if that's the right word for cynical hackwork) around Mr. Lautner, the pouty 19-year-old heartthrob of the "Twilight" franchise.
First, it may refer to some dimension of the outcome of the exploitative act or transaction, that is, the transaction is substantively unfair.
Likewise sex work, commonly regarded as the world's "oldest profession," is a shameful and exploitative act.
Drag, specifically, is often criticized as an exploitative act, in which cis men don stereotypes of femininity and parody the very real oppression women face without ever being subject to it themselves.
The same argument can be made of autoportrait: to suggest it was a purely exploitative act is to deny Reynolds her own agency in the collaboration her own clear and present awareness of the stakes involved, and the artistic necessity of vulnerability and risk.
Although we frequently claim that some act, practice, or transaction is exploitative, the concept of exploitation is typically invoked without much analysis or argument, as if its meaning and moral force were self-evident.
The US National Kidney Foundation said they were "deeply concerned about recent allegations regarding the procurement of organs and tissues through coercive or exploitative practices" and that "any act which calls the ethical practice of donation and transplantation into question should be condemned by the worldwide transplantation community".
For example, an act of consensual sex (however exploitative) with a girl aged 16 years or over was not counted as an incident but a rape was.
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