Retained Engineer Advocacy-Objectivity Balance — Private Power Company PE
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/114#Retained_Engineer_Advocacy-Objectivity_Balance_—_Private_Power_Company_PE
Properties
Instance of
RetainedEngineerPublicHearingAdvocacy-ObjectivityBalancePrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#RetainedEngineerPublicHearingAdvocacy-ObjectivityBalancePrinciple
Applied to
Private power company PE's legislative testimony on one high dam as more effective and less expensive
Balancing with
Loyalty
Objectivity
Concrete expression
The private power company PE occupies a hybrid role: simultaneously representing the company's preferred solution (one high dam) and serving as a technically responsible professional whose testimony carries independent credibility before the legislature; this requires presenting the high-dam analysis truthfully and with supporting data, not merely as commercial advocacy.
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Interpretation
The private company PE must present the high-dam position truthfully and with full engineering analysis, permitting emphasis on cost and effectiveness advantages while not suppressing material technical information that would be relevant to the legislature's decision.
Invoked by
Private Power Company PE Legislative Witness
Tension resolution
The advocacy-objectivity balance is maintained by grounding the testimony in engineering analysis and submitting voluminous data, which demonstrates technical support for the position rather than purely commercial advocacy.
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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proeth:sourcetext "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." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The advocacy-objectivity balance is maintained by grounding the testimony in engineering analysis and submitting voluminous data, which demonstrates technical support for the position rather than purely commercial advocacy." ;
proeth:textreferences "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" ;
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Metadata
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
2026-03-02T15:38:37.733447
Generated by
ProEthica Case 114 Extraction