The most general challenge to administrative would be to deny the possibility of ethics at all or the possibility of political ethics. Although a worthy chall it should not bethe primary concern of defenders of administrative ethics. Theorists (as well as practitioners when they think about ethics at all have been so preoccupied with general objections to ethics that they have neglected objections that apply specifically to ethics in administration. They have not sufficiently considered that even if we accept the possibility of morality in general andeven politics, we may have doubts about itin organizations.