Means-ends reasoning excludes moral categories by structuring action technically rather than ethically.

Evidence

The task and its performance are hence subject to a technical, not a moral, evaluation. The options open to the actor in his relation to the other split into effective and ineffective, efficient and inefficient – indeed, rational and irrational – but not right and wrong, good and evil. The elementary situation of ‘being with others’ does not generate by itself (that is, unless forced by extrinsic pressures) any moral problematics. Whatever moral considerations may interfere with it must surely come from outside. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 502

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the scaffolding for rationality-as-exclusion arguments that Islamophobia readings build on: bureaucratic means-ends logic strips the moral dimension of relating to the other. — connects to: Distance between act and consequence erases the act’s moral significance entirely — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 102; Rationality alone cannot measure organizational proficiency once moral criteria are excluded. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 426; Socratic questioning yields linguistic definitions rather than new ethical discoveries. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 448 (+3 more)

Related

• Rationality alone cannot measure organizational proficiency once moral criteria are excluded. (similarity 0.88)
• Organizations suppress morality because it cannot be rationalized (similarity 0.85)
• Social organization neutralizes morality by making action adiaphoric, neither good nor evil (similarity 0.83)
• Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality (similarity 0.82)
• Bureaucracy’s essence is dissociating means from moral evaluation of ends (similarity 0.81)
• Moral value is assigned externally to actions, not intrinsic to them. (similarity 0.81)
• Division of labour shifts evaluation from moral to technical criteria (similarity 0.80)
• Distance between act and consequence erases the act’s moral significance entirely (similarity 0.80)
• Sociology reduces morality to derivative products of non-moral social institutions (similarity 0.80)
• Modern societal organization can weaken moral drives and make immorality more plausible (similarity 0.80)
• Rational bureaucracy rendered murder morally neutral in perpetrators’ eyes. (similarity 0.80)
• Bureaucracy shifts moral concern from targets onto superiors’ judgment (similarity 0.80)
• Rationalized social organization structurally enables cruelty by mediating responsibility (similarity 0.80)
• Rationalized social relationships increase the efficiency of producing inhumanity (similarity 0.79)
• Sociology mirrored modern society by banishing ethical problematics from its discourse (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Social organization neutralizes morality by making action adiaphoric, neither good nor evil #corroborates (0.88) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 613
• Bureaucratic language becomes structurally unfit for moral evaluation of human objects. #corroborates (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 299
• Organizations suppress morality because it cannot be rationalized #expands (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 611
• Socratic questioning yields linguistic definitions rather than new ethical discoveries. #qualifies (0.72) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 448