Scientific research at a certain university was supported in part by an annual grant from a major foundation  When the university' s physics department embarked on weapons-related research, the foundation, which has a purely humanitarian mission, threatened to cancel its grant
The university then promised that none of the foundation' s money would be used for the weapons research, whereupon the foundation withdrew its threat, concluding that the weapons research would not benefit from the foundation' s grant
It assumes that if the means to achieve an objective are humanitarian in character, then the objective is also humanitarian in character.