Social marketing faces distinctive ethical challenges, which are not faced by commercial marketing, with regard to the ends it seeks, the rationale it offers for achieving those ends, and the effects it may have on its targets. The more social marketing attempts to address these ethical challenges, the more its nature as a form of social activism becomes apparent. Nevertheless, these are special ethical challenges social marketing needs to confront.
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