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It would be a good thing, if the systems planner's germination was
moral
outrage and not just a mild felt need. In other words, I do not think we should view the major problems of the world today with calm objectivity. We shouldn't first ask ourselves for a precise and operational definition of malnutrition. We should begin with 'kids are starving in great numbers, damn it all!
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Deception, in turn, suggests morality: the morality of deceiving people into thinking something is so when it is not.[...] The
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principle is this: whoever attempts to tame a part of a wicked problem, but not the whole, is morally wrong.
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What seems to emerge is not a
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reprimand of the management scientist, but rather a
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problem of the profession, a wicked
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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
Oswald Mosley
C. West Churchman
Born:
August 29, 1913
Died:
March 21, 2004
(aged 90)
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