An uncompromising biblicist, Hill builds his ethical framework on a close and careful study of Scripture. God is holy, God is just, God is loving. Likewise, justice that loses its anchor in holiness and love produces harsh outcomes.
Holiness sets an ideal standard of purity and priority.
It is illustrated with many true-life ethical vignettes from the world of business, culled from a wide variety of college business ethics casebooks. Hill defines a false exit as an attempt to sidestep an ethical dilemma by resorting to one of three common moral dodges. A second false exit, according to Hill, looks to the law to define what is acceptable business conduct. Compliance with the letter of the law becomes the moral threshold. For example, job responsibilities may require an employee-agent to participate in selling corporate products which, though legal, are understood by the employee to be socially harmful.