Repressive vs Exploitive - What's the difference?
repressive | exploitive |
Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
* 1846 Allan Freer - The North British Review
* 1989 Louis Henkin - Right V. Might
Exploitative]]: [[take advantage, taking advantage of someone
* {{quote-news, 2009, January 17, William C. Rhoden, University Sells Itself During Playoffs, New York Times
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As adjectives the difference between repressive and exploitive
is that repressive is while exploitive is exploitative]]: [[take advantage|taking advantage of someone.repressive
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(en adjective)- Human law is indeed repressive', but ' repressive on moral principles comprehensively applied to the whole community, and commanding the approval of the moral sense of the governed
- First, the classical rule forbids any unilateral right to use force to overthrow a regime on the sole grounds that it is repressive in character.
exploitive
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