Perhaps there are non-moral senses of the term ‘corruption’.
Likona differentiates between moral values and non-moral ones.
In this respect, our disagreements about morality are analogous to our disagreements about non-moral matters.
In this respect they anticipate some of Kant's ideas about moral and non-moral value.
If we nonetheless accept that maximizing utility is itself the goal, then it is best seen as a non-moral ideal, akin in some ways to an aesthetic ideal.