Good Faith Public Welfare Sincerity — Private Power Company PE Testimony
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/114#Good_Faith_Public_Welfare_Sincerity_—_Private_Power_Company_PE_Testimony
Properties
Instance of
GoodFaithPublicWelfareSinceritySufficiencyPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#GoodFaithPublicWelfareSinceritySufficiencyPrinciple
Applied to
Private power company PE's advocacy for single high dam before state legislature
Balancing with
Adversarial Engagement Objectivity Obligation
Objectivity
Concrete expression
The private power company PE's testimony that one high dam is more effective and less expensive is ethically sanctioned because it is grounded in genuine engineering analysis, reflecting sincere belief that this solution best serves the public interest in achieving the desired water supply, flood control, and power production results.
Confidence
0.85
Importance
medium
Interpretation
The ethics analysis does not require that the high-dam position be objectively correct; it is sufficient that the private company PE sincerely believes, based on engineering analysis, that it serves the public interest in achieving the desired results more effectively and economically.
Invoked by
Private Power Company PE Legislative Witness
Tension resolution
Good faith sincerity is demonstrated by the engineering analysis basis for the testimony and the submission of voluminous supporting data.
Source Evidence
Source text
Another professional engineer, representing a private power company, testifies that his engineering analysis indicates a more effective and less expensive solution, producing the same results, by using one high dam.
Text references
Another professional engineer, representing a private power company, testifies that his engineering analysis indicates a more effective and less expensive solution, producing the same results, by using one high dam.
Each engineering witness submits voluminous engineering data in support of his position
TTL
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
114
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T15:19:51.753769+00:00
First case
114
Generated
2026-03-02T15:19:51.753769+00:00
Attributed to
Case 114 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T15:38:37.735905
Generated by
ProEthica Case 114 Extraction