Value Competition and the Dichotomy between the Good and the True

My "Building Better Agents" paper positions value competition as a scientific/scientistic movement; so do a lot of my posts on this blog.  On reflection, though, I wonder whether VC is not better seen as a potential form of self-assertion by normative disciplines like management, law, and applied psychology and ethics.  These disciplines suffer from a persistent sense of inferiority to scientific disciplines, based on the blurriness and arguable incoherence that attends their normative, do-gooding mission.  VC may be understood as a way to stand up for these disciplines--"incoherence is good!"--as well as an effort to give them a more scientifically plausible way to talk about their mission.