Good Faith Public Welfare Sincerity Sufficiency — No Violation Despite Technical Dispute
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/124#Good_Faith_Public_Welfare_Sincerity_Sufficiency_—_No_Violation_Despite_Technical_Dispute
Properties
Instance of
GoodFaithPublicWelfareSinceritySufficiencyPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#GoodFaithPublicWelfareSinceritySufficiencyPrinciple
Applied to
Open letter proposing alternative highway route in public press
Balancing with
Public Policy Engineering Debate Open Resolution Principle
Sound Knowledge Foundation Requirement for Public Engineering Opinion
Concrete expression
The consulting engineer's public commentary was found ethically compliant not because his alternative route was proven superior, but because his advocacy was conducted in good faith, grounded in relevant professional knowledge, and motivated by genuine public interest rather than private gain.
Confidence
0.91
Importance
high
Interpretation
Ethical compliance in public engineering advocacy is evaluated by the sincerity and good faith of the engineer's motivation and the manner of expression, not by whether the engineer's technical position ultimately prevails.
Invoked by
Consulting Engineer Principal Public Route Alternative Proposer
Tension resolution
Good faith and adequate knowledge are sufficient for ethical compliance; correctness of the technical position is not required.
Source Evidence
Source text
We find no violation of any of these restrictions in the facts presented.
Text references
There is no indication that the consulting engineer was representing any client or that he was using his criticism as a means to advance his own personal interests.
This is not to say that the alternate route proposed by the consulting engineer was in fact superior to those suggested by the engineers of the highway department.
We find no violation of any of these restrictions in the facts presented.
TTL
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proeth:principleclass "Good Faith Public Welfare Sincerity Sufficiency Principle" ;
proeth:sourcetext "We find no violation of any of these restrictions in the facts presented." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Good faith and adequate knowledge are sufficient for ethical compliance; correctness of the technical position is not required." ;
proeth:textreferences "There is no indication that the consulting engineer was representing any client or that he was using his criticism as a means to advance his own personal interests.",
"This is not to say that the alternate route proposed by the consulting engineer was in fact superior to those suggested by the engineers of the highway department.",
"We find no violation of any of these restrictions in the facts presented." ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
124
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T15:29:59.363035+00:00
First case
124
Generated
2026-03-02T15:29:59.363035+00:00
Attributed to
Case 124 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T15:41:57.144740
Generated by
ProEthica Case 124 Extraction