Exactly! Unless of course we're up front about what our goal/premise is. Then it's absolutely appropriate. For eg.: "If we want to minimize the burden of dise

Exactly! Unless of course we're up front about what our goal/premise is. Then it's absolutely appropriate. For eg.: "If we want to minimize the burden of disease from X in Y conditions, we should take Z course of action." Other eg.: rather than saying "you should not urinate on the electric fence", a good scientist will say "if you want to minimize the likelihood of unnecessary suffering, you should not urinate on the electric fence."