Legitimate Inter-Engineer Public Disagreement State
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#LegitimateInter-EngineerPublicDisagreementState
Definition
State in which two or more licensed professional engineers, each acting in good faith and within their competence, have reached materially different technical conclusions or recommendations on the same engineering problem — particularly in the context of public policy, environmental design, or infrastructure planning — and have expressed or are expected to express those differences in public forums. The state recognizes that honest professional disagreement does not constitute an ethical violation by either party, and that public debate between engineers on such matters is consistent with professional obligations.
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Definition
State in which two or more licensed professional engineers, each acting in good faith and within their competence, have reached materially different technical conclusions or recommendations on the same engineering problem — particularly in the context of public policy, environmental design, or infrastructure planning — and have expressed or are expected to express those differences in public forums. The state recognizes that honest professional disagreement does not constitute an ethical violation by either party, and that public debate between engineers on such matters is consistent with professional obligations.
Source Evidence
Source Text
engineers can ethically reach different conclusions when looking at the same set of facts
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rdfs:comment "State in which two or more licensed professional engineers, each acting in good faith and within their competence, have reached materially different technical conclusions or recommendations on the same engineering problem — particularly in the context of public policy, environmental design, or infrastructure planning — and have expressed or are expected to express those differences in public forums. The state recognizes that honest professional disagreement does not constitute an ethical violation by either party, and that public debate between engineers on such matters is consistent with professional obligations." ;
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Content Hash
d7b4d918faa3d7ad...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
94
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-28T20:37:32.584640+00:00
First Discovered In Case
94
Generated
2026-02-28T20:37:32.584640+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 94 Extraction