A further misunderstanding in administrative ethics is the tendency to promote ethics as a series of either/or choices. Rohr (1989), for example, famously suggested the low and high roads to administrative ethics, whereas a myriad of commentators have used a framework of compliance and integrity. Although those frameworks usually are presented as a spectrum, they implicitly suggest that one end of the spectrum is preferable (the high road, the integrity system) and, more important, they highlight tensions within the spectrum that need to be somehow resolved. Tensions exist in a number of either/or choices (consequentialism or deontology; reason or emotion) that present us with unhelpfully restrictive frameworks within which to deal with the very practical problems faced by administrators.