By definition, it excludes moral or ethical dimensions from management since they are about intentions which cannot be modelled or quantified.
"This is probably one of the most dangerous things facing manking today: A use and training of intelligence excluding moral sensitivity", Dr. Clark once said.
"Science and risk assessment cannot tell us what we need to know about threats of danger since they explicitly try to exclude moral ideas about a good life".
As a consequence, its approach to hunting down tax dodgers is one of extreme pragmatism based on a cost-benefit analysis that apparently excludes moral accounting (see past tax deals with, for example, Goldman Sachs).
In one, caseworkers worried that an unmarried young woman whose family had perished in the death camps could be excluded for "moral turpitude". She was arriving with a 3-year-old child, the son of an American serviceman who had abandoned her when she was six months pregnant.
The skeptical philosopher Thomas Hobbes and the writer Bernard de Mandeville, who praised the public benefits of brothels, were excluded on moral grounds, and in the Plan for the Dictionary Johnson explains that the inclusion of a writer could be taken as an invitation to read his work.
Today nobody subscribes to Descartes' theory that animals are machines and therefore justifiably excluded from moral consideration.
But the personal experiment of excluding all moral concepts and language from my thinking, feeling and actions has proved so workable and attractive, I am convinced that anyone who gives it a fair shot would likely find it to his liking.
One would appeal to Schleiermacher's determinism and compatibilism; that a mode of existence or behavior is inevitable does not for him exclude its moral obligatoriness.
