Engineers A and B Environmental Design Sincere Professional Judgment Ethical Sufficiency Landfill
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/113#Engineers_A_and_B_Environmental_Design_Sincere_Professional_Judgment_Ethical_Sufficiency_Landfill
Properties
Instance of
EnvironmentalDesignSincereProfessionalJudgmentEthicalSufficiencyObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#EnvironmentalDesignSincereProfessionalJudgmentEthicalSufficiencyObligation
Case context
Engineers A and B proceeded with the town council's direction to design the higher-contour landfill expansion, acting on their sincere professional opinion that the approach would not jeopardize public health, despite Engineer C's public challenge.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.86
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineers A and B
Obligation statement
Engineers A and B were obligated to base their decision to proceed with the higher-contour landfill expansion on sincere professional judgment that the design would not jeopardize public health, and having done so — after consulting applicable guidelines and conducting case-by-case site analysis — their proceeding with the design constituted ethical conduct consistent with the NSPE Code.
Temporal scope
Throughout the design process and upon submission of the accepted design
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
If we assume, as we must, that Engineers A and B are of the sincere opinion that the approach desired by the town council will not jeopardize the public health of the community...
Text references
If we assume, as we must, that Engineers A and B are of the sincere opinion that the approach desired by the town council will not jeopardize the public health of the community...
professional judgment will be the final arbiter of the best balance between society's needs for certain facilities and the level of environmental degradation which may be unavoidable in filling those basic needs.
TTL
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proeth-core:competesWith case113:Engineers_A_and_B_Competing_Loyalty_Public_Safety_Primacy_Resolution_Landfill_Design ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case113:Methane_Migration_and_Groundwater_Contamination_Risk_-_Town_Landfill_Higher_Contour_Design ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineers A and B proceeded with the town council's direction to design the higher-contour landfill expansion, acting on their sincere professional opinion that the approach would not jeopardize public health, despite Engineer C's public challenge." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
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proeth:confidence "0.86" ;
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case113:Professional_Judgment_as_Final_Arbiter_Invoked_for_Landfill_Environmental_Balance ;
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proeth:importance "high" ;
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proeth:obligationstatement "Engineers A and B were obligated to base their decision to proceed with the higher-contour landfill expansion on sincere professional judgment that the design would not jeopardize public health, and having done so — after consulting applicable guidelines and conducting case-by-case site analysis — their proceeding with the design constituted ethical conduct consistent with the NSPE Code." ;
proeth:sourcetext "If we assume, as we must, that Engineers A and B are of the sincere opinion that the approach desired by the town council will not jeopardize the public health of the community..." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the design process and upon submission of the accepted design" ;
proeth:textreferences "If we assume, as we must, that Engineers A and B are of the sincere opinion that the approach desired by the town council will not jeopardize the public health of the community...",
"professional judgment will be the final arbiter of the best balance between society's needs for certain facilities and the level of environmental degradation which may be unavoidable in filling those basic needs." ;
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
113
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T22:27:34.479644+00:00
First case
113
Generated
2026-03-01T22:27:34.479644+00:00
Attributed to
Case 113 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T22:37:07.058653
Generated by
ProEthica Case 113 Extraction